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If you want full control, you've got to be in full control. But you can't do that if you delegate that control to a third party. That's the whole point of bitco
by m52go 8y ago
If you want full control, you've got to be in full control. But you can't do that if you delegate that control to a third party. That's the whole point of bitcoin.
Instead of complaining, WikiLeaks can set up their own payment processing server and do away with Coinbase altogether.
Can't do that with a bank account!
- mankash666 8y agoOr they can stop colluding with Russia under the pretext of freedom
- corndoge 8y ago[citation needed]
- vuln 8y ago> Or they can stop colluding with Russia under the pretext of freedom Could you provide a source? I'd love to know more.
- Retroity 8y agoDon't worry guys, the DNC said so, so it must be true!
- roywiggins 8y ago"It is time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is – a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia. In January of this year, our Intelligence Community determined that Russian military intelligence—the GRU—had used WikiLeaks to release data of US victims that the GRU had obtained through cyber operations against the Democratic National Committee. And the report also found that Russia’s primary propaganda outlet, RT, has actively collaborated with WikiLeaks." - Mike Pompeo, current CIA director and nominee for Secretary of State I'm all for skepticism of what people say, especially people in positions like CIA Director, but when a Republican CIA director agrees with the DNC about what happened, it seems not entirely unreasonable to give it some credence. He is in the absolutely perfect position to say otherwise, if he believed otherwise, and is in the perfect position to reevaluate the previous intelligence report. He's the director of the CIA! If he thinks there's evidence backing another narrative, he can just come out and say so.
- fareesh 8y agoEven if Satan himself proved he was real and aided Wikileaks by publishing true information, I'd be all for it. What's being suggested is that they selectively publish true information by not publishing certain things that don't suit a particular agenda. This accusation is being asserted without evidence, and can therefore be dismissed without evidence.
- jamespo 8y agoIndeed, just a coincidence since http://foreignpolicy.com/2010/11/01/russias-fsb-to-wikileaks-we-could-destroy-you/ http://foreignpolicy.com/2010/11/01/russias-fsb-to-wikileaks... wikileaks hasn't posted anything meaningful about Russia
- IncRnd 8y agoPretty sure that wikileaks has disclosed information on Russia. Your link was from 2010, eight years ago. https://wikileaks.org/spyfiles/russia/ https://wikileaks.org/spyfiles/russia/
- darawk 8y ago> This accusation is being asserted without evidence, and can therefore be dismissed without evidence. What? There's plenty of evidence. Wikileaks consistently published information damaging to Hillary Clinton in the run-up to the election, and published zero information damaging to Trump.
- jarfil 8y agoUnless you can prove that WikiLeaks received some information damaging to Trump and then REFUSED to publish it, all you're saying is that nobody sent them such information.
- belorn 8y agoAssange intention has been rather clear after the statement Hillary gave as the Secretary of State during cablegate and the involvement of US diplomats in the Swedish investigation. I don't get it why people think that he is supposed to be unbiased in his view of her and trump. What is a normal reaction to be publicly declared a murderer and enemy combatant (with an implied statement to be droned) for publishing documents from people involved in the US military that wanted to give the public information? In the context of what he perceive she has done against him, what is the likeliest outcome if he comes into contact with damaging information and a request to publish it? "No thank you, only if you provide equally damaging information on her opponent or else it will look bad?".
- thegeekpirate 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks#Allegations_of_Russian_influence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks#Allegations_of_Russi...
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- jessaustin 8y agoIt's just so sad that you aren't going to get your war in Syria! This discussion is a microcosm of why: Wikileaks simply releases items of interest, while their competitors in the official Western media have to always worry about whether their reporting contributes to More War Always. Thus despite all the braying about Wikileaks' motives, the average thinking human automatically believes them more than the "Russia is teh devil" media firms.
- merinowool 8y agoBut it is good to know what is coinbase's moral compass.
- olfactory 8y agoIndeed. I’ll be moving my coins out ASAP now.
- trumped 8y agoCoinbase has been fishy from the start... For example, I placed buy orders for some Bitcoins when they dropped sharply years ago (Coinbase just started at that time) and they canceled those orders after I placed them. Now what they do is that they bring the servers down when it happens. They did the same with Bitcoin Cash, or maybe worst... (see stories about when they first introduced bitcoin cash)
- bhouston 8y agoIs coinbase becoming hegemonic over cryptocurrencies? So much for decentralization.
- darawk 8y agoNot at all. There's plenty of alternatives to Coinbase: https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/volume/24-hour/ https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/volume/24-hour/
- sp0rk 8y ago> Now what they do is that they bring the servers down when it happens. That's a pretty bold allegation. Do you have any evidence that this is the case.
- trumped 8y agoNo. It was just such a common occurrence that I could not come to a different conclusion. If you need many examples, look for Reddit threads that talk about Coinbase created right after Bitcoin dips.
- return1 8y agohow hard is it to create a payment gateway? open source projects?
- m52go 8y agoYes, for example, BTCPay Server: https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver