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by barmstrong 13y ago
Coinbase founder here. We'll reach out via email to discuss the details of this case with you.
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by barmstrong 13y ago
We'll take a look. Thanks for the reminder!
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by barmstrong 13y ago
Brian from Coinbase here. Sorry for the delay on that - definitely not the customer experience we are striving for. We should have things squared away for you by end of day. Edit: your bitcoin credit has now been processed. It looks like
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by barmstrong 13y ago
Yes, we have some remote engineers also. We should probably reflect this better on the careers page. Sorry about that.
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by barmstrong 13y ago
They are using the "instant exchange" feature of Coinbase: https://coinbase.com/docs/merchant_tools/payouts The USD price is locked in, and they never need to hold bitcoin. It is just a cheaper payment
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by barmstrong 13y ago
This was the best explanation I saw.
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by barmstrong 13y ago
You're right, this is a new version we rebuilt.
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by barmstrong 13y ago
It's a good point. You can actually buy reddit gold using bitcoin right now (through Coinbase) so we are familiar with it. When people give reddit gold they are actually supporting reddit which is cooler in some ways, although the po
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by barmstrong 13y ago
The micro-transactions are off-blockchain (an in-network transaction between Coinbase accounts) - unfortunately that's the only way to get them for free without any miner fees (many are very small amounts). However, if you accumulate
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by barmstrong 13y ago
We didn't think it was easy enough to use. Also you can do micro-transactions with zero fees on Coinbase, which is ideal doe situations like this which are all small payments, so we wanted to take advantage of that.
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by barmstrong 13y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. We wanted to do one that was (1) easier to understand for users new to bitcoin and (2) used the free micro-transactions feature on Coinbase that you mentioned. Number 1 in particular I think is really importa
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by barmstrong 13y ago
What do people think about a similar service for HackerNews/Twitter/Facebook? You need a way to be able to send the person a private message (to receive the first claim URL). But other than it is pretty simple to set up. It uses
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How To Send Bitcoin Tips On Reddit(blog.coinbase.com)
62 points by barmstrong 13y ago|33 comments
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Coinbase Merchant Tools: Collecting Customer Shipping Addresses and Emails(blog.coinbase.com)
6 points by barmstrong 13y ago|0 comments
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Get Free Bitcoin Via The Coinbase API(blog.coinbase.com)
3 points by barmstrong 13y ago|1 comments
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Security At Coinbase(coinbase.com)
79 points by barmstrong 13y ago|45 comments
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by barmstrong 13y ago
San Francisco, CA https://coinbase.com/careers Interested in helping build the future of currency and payments? Do you regularly run though brick walls on your way to success? Are you passionate about bitcoin? If so, you&#x
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Free payment processing on your first $1M in bitcoin orders(blog.coinbase.com)
5 points by barmstrong 13y ago|0 comments
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by barmstrong 13y ago
There are people who use it in the first world, but yes the killer app is in the developing world. Smart phone penetration in India for example is about 3%. Even in the U.S. it is about 45% I think from when I last checked.
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How To Accept Bitcoin Payments On WordPress Websites(blog.coinbase.com)
6 points by barmstrong 13y ago|0 comments
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by barmstrong 13y ago
Can someone explain the security implications of Persona? In what ways is it more or less secure than other authentication mechanisms (username/password, two factor auth, etc)? Thanks!
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CrowdTilt, Soylent, and Coinbase oh my(blog.coinbase.com)
2 points by barmstrong 13y ago|0 comments
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You Can Now Send Micro-Transactions With Zero Fees On Coinbase(blog.coinbase.com)
107 points by barmstrong 13y ago|31 comments
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Coinbase has launched a new design(blog.coinbase.com)
6 points by barmstrong 13y ago|0 comments
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by barmstrong 13y ago
Here is the blog post announcing it with some more details: http://blog.coinbase.com/post/57004129505/we-launched-a-new-...
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by barmstrong 13y ago
We're a little backed up on sign up emails at the moment! Should be arriving shortly (scaling up workers). Apologies for the delay.
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by barmstrong 13y ago
Sorry to hear that happened. Please send us a note on http://support.coinbase.com/ SMS is unfortunately unreliable in some instances. You should be able to receive a call with the verification code also as a backup.
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by barmstrong 13y ago
Coinbase is hiring in San Francisco, CA. H1B welcome. We're leading the bitcoin/digital currency revolution and recently completed the largest fundraise in bitcoin. We're a ruby/javascript shop. https://coinb
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by barmstrong 13y ago
The keys for the paper wallet are not stored on Coinbase.
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Export Your Bitcoins to a Paper Wallet Using Coinbase(blog.coinbase.com)
9 points by barmstrong 13y ago|3 comments

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