> Am I wrong to be worried about uploading a picture of my passport to a US company? As opposed to? I mean, if you travel anywhere, the US government has a sca

> Am I wrong to be worried about uploading a picture of my passport to a US company? As opposed to? I mean, if you travel anywhere, the US government has a scan of your passport. Surely the bigger concern here is not the passport but the money you desire to give away to any company in exchange for a database entry that assigns you a fraction of a nascent digital currency. If you do sign-up - and you should if you believe in Bitcoin's future - make sure to buy Bitcoin on Gdax. It's Coinbase's trading platform. Buy your coins there and you avoid the outrageous fees (as you're making the trade yourself rather than paying Coinbase to do it for you).