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coinbase-craig

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About coinbase-craig

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/craig; my proof: https://keybase.io/craig/sigs/qkbvoSwMF3oTlH4ITZVkiez9jiCJ_8gWf2SoGS_MwGQ ]

Recent public activity

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    Comment #8666739

    Hi, my name is Craig. I'm a real engineer. The reason I answer things this way is because I haven't actually been given explicit permission to respond to these kinds of things on b…

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    Comment #8665960

    We've never canceled orders due to price changes.

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    Comment #8529184

    Yes, you can sign a transaction offline using our multisig vault recovery tool, which is open source: https://github.com/coinbase/multisig-tool You can use it to generate a transac…

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    Comment #8528969

    Coinbase stores one private key that we can access, and one private key that is encrypted with the user's vault password on the front-end and sent to us encrypted for storage. The …

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    Comment #7981786

    Hi, Craig here from Coinbase. What changes would you like to see to the API?

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    Comment #7511043

    Further, the security audit began this week before this issue. It was proactive, not responsive.

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    Comment #6911865

    I guess I just disagree. To me, what you are "paid in" is the thing that changes ownership from your employer to you on pay day. It seems like you are simply insisting that "paid i…

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    Comment #6911704

    But dollars are not being delivered to me, that's the point. Bitcoin isn't acting as a middleman here-it's the end. If I were your employer and decided to price your bi-weekly payc…

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    Comment #6911609

    At the end of the day I end up with bitcoin in my account, not dollars. So what you're saying does not seem correct to me. The conversion is just a way of determining how much bitc…

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    Comment #6911446

    Yep, basically. But what's your point? I don't want to do the extra work. I consider not having to a perk.

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    Comment #6911379

    I get paid a USD equivalent. So if bitcoin went down next month, I'd just get a greater amount of bitcoin. I could change to being paid in USD instead, but I choose to be paid in b…

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    Comment #6911286

    I get my salary paid in bitcoin and I think it's pretty awesome.

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    Comment #6897929

    This is the speed of ACH bank transfers. There is nothing we can do it about it. It's part of the reason bitcoin is important.

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    Comment #6893839

    On rare occasions we are not able to provide bitcoin at a locked-in price. When we can't, we offer the ability to place an order in USD for an amount of BTC equal to the exchange r…

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    Comment #6893679

    We are hiring for lots of positions. If you are interested and enthusiastic about bitcoin (or just curious), please take a look: https://coinbase.com/careers

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    Comment #6800315

    What changes would you like to see?

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    Comment #6738044

    That wasn't the reason that Apple provided us with. e: clarity

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    Comment #6737750

    We didn't remove it.

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    Comment #5918540

    My question is why is it up to the facility to investigate? Shouldn't there be a police investigation? Why's that not happening?

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