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shrug Some people certainly do: https://twitter.com/search?q=just%20bought%20coinbase&src=typd&f=realtime https://twitter.com/search?q=just%20bought%20coinbase
by eli 13y ago
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Some people certainly do: https://twitter.com/search?q=just%20bought%20coinbase&src=typd&f=realtime https://twitter.com/search?q=just%20bought%20coinbase&src=ty...
I agree it's not ideal, but if your security relied on a guessable email address staying private, you're already not in a good place.
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- dspillett 13y agoBecause "well someone else does it" has always been the best reason to behave a certain way...
- eli 13y agoNo, and indeed I don't publish whether or not I have a coinbase account. But it isn't a serious security failure if that somehow got out.
- genwin 13y agoExcept for the non-zero possibility it could make the difference between you being murdered during a home invasion, or not.
- mpyne 13y agoLast time a politician was worried about non-zero probabilities, the U.S. invaded Iraq. I mean, if changing the probability someone's home gets broken into is our standard of practice nowadays there's a lot of companies which will have to close down today.
- genwin 13y agoI reckon non-anonymous bitcoin holders are at greater risk than the average person with money in the bank, since draining the account of the former is a relative cinch once the keys are divulged. The whole crime could be completed within a few minutes.
- mpyne 13y agoThat much may be true, but I'd consider that an inherent risk associated with using Bitcoin without using a pseudonym. Maybe I'm naïve but I have to assume people who care about such things are already tracking IP addresses directly from the Bitcoin network swarm itself for later investigation...
- genwin 13y agoLikely Coinbase customers expected Coinbase to keep their real name secure from potential thieves. But they thought wrongly.