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coinbase.com
Company blog · coinbase.com/blog · on HN as barmstrongbusinessprogramming
coinbase.com is the company blog at coinbase.com, writing about business and programming. Since 2012, 364 different Hacker News readers have linked it 542 times, most often “Coinbase (YC S12) seeks to bring Bitcoin to the masses”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Rarely recommended · 1 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
Mostly linked as bare URLs in job posts and in comments citing company pages on licences, insurance, security, product pages and the cold storage writeup. Commenters cite these for facts rather than judging the writing.
- Recommended for · 1 comments
- Says the cold storage writeup seems pretty solid.1
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /careers11 people · 15 mentions · first linked 2013-09-02
- Coinbase (YC S12) seeks to bring Bitcoin to the masses10 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2012-06-29
- Coinbase reaches 13M users9 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2014-11-26
- Bitcoin at an all-time high8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2015-01-15
- Coinbase Debit Card8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2019-04-11
- Bitcoin breaks $2007 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2012-09-21
- /7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2013-11-18
- /security6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2015-01-23
- Coinbase is down again5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2014-10-30
- /legal/insurance5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-05-04
What Hacker News says?
Democratic Reddit, where votes can be bought for 20-for-$1 https://coinbase.com/checkouts/35297a275c385a75d231fd4a6edd5...
Comment linking /checkouts/35297a275c385a75d231fd4a6edd56ca
on “Gitmo Is Killing Me”Submitted Coinbase (YC S12) seeks to bring Bitcoin to the masses as a story · 291 points
HN discussionCoinbase has an extremely advanced chain analysis system. Simple tricks like that are unlikely to defeat it. https://www.coinbase.com/analytics
Comment linking /analytics
on “OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October”Submitted Coinbase outages as a story · 276 points
HN discussionCoinbase (YC S12) | San Francisco, New York, London | Onsite | https://www.coinbase.com Digital currency will bring about more innovation, efficiency, and equality of opportunity in the world by creating an open financial system. We can use this new technology to help good ideas spread faster, reduce the inefficiencies that legacy payment networks impose on the world, and provide access to financial services to seve…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?”Submitted Coinbase Debit Card as a story · 223 points
HN discussionWe're hiring a ton at Coinbase ( https://coinbase.com ) right now for pretty much every team: backend, frontend, data, ML, infra, sre, dev exp, em's etc. We have a great culture and it's a fantastic place to work. I'm learning more than I ever have in my career and it's fun to be working in the blockchain/crypto industry. Incredible benefits and comp. If you're interested, shoot me an email at bradley.herman [at] co…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?”Submitted Coinbase Card as a story · 215 points
HN discussionAt least in the US, spending crypto is taxed the same as selling it. https://www.coinbase.com/learn/tips-and-tutorials/crypto-and...
Comment linking /learn/tips-and-tutorials/crypto-and-bitcoin-taxes-US
on “MasterCard to open up network to cryptocurrencies”Submitted Coinbase down for maintenance as a story · 200 points
HN discussionThat's a wide impact. While any hijacked account is bad, some of these are really bad. For example, https://coinbase.com is on that list! If they haven't immediately invalidated every single HTTP session after hearing this news this is going to be bad. Ditto for forcing password resets. A hijacked account that can irrevocably send digital currency to an anonymous bad guy's account would be target number one for usin…
Comment linking /
on “List of Sites Affected by Cloudflare's HTTPS Traffic Leak”Submitted Coinbase Cloud as a story · 195 points
HN discussionNotable that Anthropic also seems to be involved in x402: https://www.coinbase.com/developer-platform/discover/launche...
Comment linking /developer-platform/discover/launches/x402
on “Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo”Submitted Bitcoin breaks $200 as a story · 168 points
HN discussionCoinbase is about to release a debit card [1] that you'll be able to use everywhere. [1] https://www.coinbase.com/card
Comment linking /card
on “Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in the future”Submitted Bitcoin has made a new all-time high price as a story · 166 points
HN discussionFor anyone interested, they have a listing day page[1] and are doing a cofounder Q&A live in a bit[2]. 1: https://www.coinbase.com/listingday 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuqkjklLSCY
Comment linking /listingday
on “Coinbase from YC to DPO”Submitted Multisig Vault as a story · 102 points
HN discussionCoinbase | Senior Software Engineer (full-stack), Infrastructure Engineer (DevOps) | San Francisco | https://www.coinbase.com/ Coinbase (YC S12) is creating an open financial system for the world. As a senior software engineer at Coinbase you will help build the future of payments infrastructure and digital currencies like bitcoin and ethereum. We're looking for people especially excited about payment systems and pa…
Comment linking /careers/11011
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)”Submitted Coinbase cuts staff by a further 20% as a story · 81 points
HN discussionCoinbase (YC S13) | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | FULL-TIME | Sr. Software Engineers https://www.coinbase.com/careers/9275 We're looking for Senior Software Engineers to join us in building the future of payments infrastructure and digital currencies. We recently hired a VP of Engineering and have a team of 38 engineers (that constitutes half of the people in the office) who work on GDAX (exchange platform), brokerag…
Comment linking /careers/9275
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)”Submitted Security At Coinbase as a story · 79 points
HN discussionCoinbase is insured. Crypto balances are insured against theft, and fiat balances are deposited into accounts that are then FDIC (or whatever is equivalent for other countries) insured. https://www.coinbase.com/legal/insurance
Comment linking /legal/insurance
on “Coinbase warns that bankruptcy could wipe out user funds”Submitted Bitcoin just broke 400 USD as a story · 69 points
HN discussionWhoops, it turns out it's tokenized, not an actual short. I'll delete the comment (really edit, since delete is now removed.) https://www.coinbase.com/how-to-buy/1x-short-bitcoin-token
Comment linking /how-to-buy/1x-short-bitcoin-token
on “Coinbase warns that bankruptcy could wipe out user funds”Submitted Bitcoin-collateralized loans coming to Coinbase as a story · 58 points
HN discussion>(coinbase payment processor and accept cryptocurrencies?) https://www.coinbase.com/legal/prohibited
Comment linking /legal/prohibited
on “OnlyFans drops planned porn ban”Submitted Bitcoin at an all-time high as a story · 58 points
HN discussionCoinbase | Senior Software Engineer (full-stack), Product Manager (PM) | onsite in San Francisco or remote | https://www.coinbase.com/ Coinbase (YC S12) is creating an open financial system for the world. As a software or infrastructure engineer at Coinbase you will help build the future of payments infrastructure and digital currencies like bitcoin and ethereum. We're looking for people especially excited about pay…
Comment linking /careers/16847
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)”Submitted Some Coinbase customers' PII data stolen as a story · 44 points
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