I agree that it's a clumsy move by Coinbase at best, and dishonest at its worst. What I find far more interesting though is the response, which really reveals

I agree that it's a clumsy move by Coinbase at best, and dishonest at its worst. What I find far more interesting though is the response, which really reveals the core use case of Twitter. The people responding are having a party. Read it. This is the moment where they shine. Piling onto somebody that made a mistake or is embarrassed. Watch how much pleasure they take from it, "best thing they've seen all day". Frantically liking, retweeting, dancing on somebody's corpse. This really is the best part of their day, they've been scrolling all day without proper outrage, and this is the jackpot for their hate addiction. It fulfills them. It's a white male even, no better target than that. Let's make it a feminist and BLM issue too. The more the target is stamped into the ground, the better. And the twisted part is that these people typically signal how good and righteous they are. They're not. They're sadists that take joy from the suffering of others. Case in point, "DHH" (from Basecamp) still can't open comments on his Twitter a whopping 6 months after bringing himself into trouble. The harassment is this intense. It's not that neither of these two didn't do anything questionable, but they didn't exactly commit war crimes either. The "good" people are so relentlessly cruel. They've lost any sense of proportionality, reason, perspective, and basic human forgiveness. When you've spent some more time on (tech) Twitter, as I unfortunately have, you actually recognize the grifters. It's always the same few dozen people that have many followers. They are basically the distributors of outrage. A fresh high profile outrage? Count on them to be there in minutes, dropping their low effort hot take. They're experts in maximizing pain in the fewest characters. They live for this. How absolutely pathetic.