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engineering.coinbase.com
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engineering.coinbase.com is the company blog at engineering.coinbase.com, writing about programming and security. Since 2017, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “Introducing Coinbase Open Source Fund”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Coinbase's engineering posts on how the exchange secures and moves funds (cold storage), on downtime and maintenance incidents, and on Expect-CT certificate monitoring. No comment judges the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Introducing Coinbase Open Source Fund4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-02-07
- How Coinbase Builds Secure Infrastructure to Store Bitcoin in the Cloud (2016)3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-09-21
- May 22–24 Downtime Post Mortem – Coinbase Engineering3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-06-14
- Moving to Expect-CT2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-11-03
- November 29th-December First Post Mortem – The Coinbase Engineering Blog2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-12-05
- AWS bastions and assume-role2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-10-23
What Hacker News says?
Coinbase | San Francisco, New York, London UK | Full-time | https://www.coinbase.com/careers Coinbase is a platform that facilitates the easy use of digital currency for consumers and merchants. This includes buying and selling of digital currency, secure storage in the cloud, and a suite of merchant tools. Moving and transacting financial assets safely is core to executing on our vision and building our brand of tr…
Comment linking /introducing-coinbase-open-source-fund-116617a1f6ec
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)”Submitted Update on Meltdown and Spectre as a story · 209 points
HN discussionAWS might be partly to blame, for not warning them, actively or passively, in my opinion. It might just be infrastructure as a service, but it seems that major cloud providers like AWS act as an IaaS provider when convenient, and a PaaS when convenient. They censor content all the time. I don't think it would be too much to ask to send an email when a big security change is made (the emails and audit log GitHub prov…
Comment linking /you-need-more-than-one-aws-account-aws-bastions-and-assume-role-23946c6dfde3
on “Spyware Company Leaves ‘Terabytes’ of Selfies, Messages, Location Data Exposed”Submitted AWS bastions and assume-role as a story · 157 points
HN discussionBuild a financial exchange with Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, and Redis. What could go wrong? https://engineering.coinbase.com/november-29th-december-1st-...
Comment linking /november-29th-december-1st-post-mortem-69a1810f9910
on “Coinbase down for maintenance”Submitted Introducing Coinbase Open Source Fund as a story · 7 points
HN discussionDo you mean this one? https://engineering.coinbase.com/may-22-24-downtime-post-mor...
Comment linking /may-22-24-downtime-post-mortem-2031b47c82ec
on “Bitcoin, Ethereum, Blockchain, Tokens, ICOs: Why Should Anyone Care?”Submitted How Coinbase Builds Secure Infrastructure to Store Bitcoin in the Cloud (2016) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis is (imo) the most correct response to this query. The idea behind the CT lists is that browsers will flip into a "if it's no publicly identifiable, it's not valid" mode. The Coinbase Engineering blog actually just put out an article on this very topic today - https://engineering.coinbase.com/moving-to-expect-ct-d0d26a0... .
Comment linking /moving-to-expect-ct-d0d26a07046d
on “Show HN: CertStream – See SSL certs as they're issued in real time”Submitted Hiring your first 10 engineers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFor those who might be a bit confused...... This feature will not make your coins more secure or prevent coinbase from being hacked. However your coins will most likely be moved to "Cold storage" which will make your coins extremely difficult to steal in the event that either coinbase or your account is breached. As far as cryptocurrency exchanges go, Coinbase is among the most secure, practicing what they call "Par…
Comment linking /how-coinbase-builds-secure-infrastructure-to-store-bitcoin-in-the-cloud-30a6504e40ba
on “Announcing Ethereum and Litecoin vaults”Submitted Gamifying Security Culture at Coinbase with PwnBot as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere is an older post [1] describing how they do this, curious how much it changed since then. [1] https://engineering.coinbase.com/how-coinbase-builds-secure-...
Comment linking /how-coinbase-builds-secure-infrastructure-to-store-bitcoin-in-the-cloud-30a6504e40ba
on “Coinbase opens its crypto index fund to accredited U.S. investors”Submitted November 29th-December First Post Mortem – The Coinbase Engineering Blog as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMost of the answers will be found here https://engineering.coinbase.com/how-coinbase-builds-secure-...
Comment linking /how-coinbase-builds-secure-infrastructure-to-store-bitcoin-in-the-cloud-30a6504e40ba
on “Ask: What are the mechanics of how Coinbase moves its Bitcoin?”Submitted Codifying Coinbase as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Sourcing Coinbase’s Secure Deployment Pipeline as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing Coinbase Open Source Fund as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Coinbase: May 22–24 Downtime Post Mortem as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted May 22–24 Downtime Post Mortem – Coinbase Engineering as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gamifying Security Culture with PwnBot as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing Coinbase Open Source Fund as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moving to Expect-CT as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How We Codified Our Infrastructure at Coinbase as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Coinbase Engineering Teams Work as a story · 1 points
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