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> 3. This happening is from my perspective just a quick look behind the curtain of the Digital Currency infrastructure problem as it exists today. There is no g
by marcell 9y ago
> 3. This happening is from my perspective just a quick look behind the curtain of the Digital Currency infrastructure problem as it exists today. There is no good way in, or out of digital currency at the moment, and the ones that exist are tenuous at best.
What country do you live in? This has not been true in US or EU for years as Coinbase and Kraken are two excellent options to get in and out. Bitcoin debit cards are a bit of novelty, not some central infrastructure.
- Domenic_S 9y agoComparing Coinbase to ETrade I'd have to disagree. If you want to make small (sub-$1000) transactions, sure Coinbase and Kraken are good enough, but $10k or $100k or $1MM is a totally different story.
- hfourm 9y agoTo add on to the other poster, Coinbase has some terrible workflows. Inconsistent card verification, ID verification is pretty much broken (intentionally or not).
- root_axis 9y agoI haven't used kraken, but I can say that I would not qualify Coinbase as good... it as at best "usable". Unacceptably poor customer service, significant markup when buying bitcoin, sometimes a week or more delay between purchase and fulfillment, arduous verification process for new customers, being arbitrarily (from the customer's perspective) flagged for a verification even though you already sent them a photo of your passport 3 months prior, banning customers for sending coins to certain addresses, and did I mention unacceptably terrible customer service? Sometimes just never even responding to a customer ever? I can't say it's not usable... I have bought bitcoin from there and I did receive it, but the experience has been very far from good.