Are you sure this email was from Coinbase? Have you actually received the BTC? Is this post meta-spam? b^)
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spam about spam.
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#12/u/chosen you appear to be hellbanned.
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#13It has probably been given to the guys that have applied for the internship earlier this March (at least that't when I gave that email address to YC)
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#14I received a similar email and have applied for an internship sometime during March. YC did mention they received over 1600 applications for it.
Pretty cool gesture.
Though, I think you are slightly luckier than I am because I received 0.002315 BTC :P
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#15I received this email today too, I applied for the summer internship.
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#16Isn't this kind of a privacy breach if it's true? Why does Coinbase get access to emails of people that have applied to YC? I'm not generally a data privacy zealot or anything, but that seems sketchy that YC would provide a batch list of emails to companies for what is essentially advertising/spam...
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#18Yeah I got the email as well... And it's not spam it's legit because I opened and it actually got the balance... Equivalent to $1...
I had applied for both internship as well as YC so can't comment at to which one triggered it but the mail mentions the application and not internship..
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#19Isn't this kind of a privacy breach if it's true? Why does Coinbase get access to emails of people that have applied to YC? I'm not generally a data privacy zealot or anything, but that seems sketchy that YC would provide a batch list of emails to companies for what is essentially advertising/spam...
Coinbase is a YC company. One of the primary functions of YC is networking. In that light, it seems pretty reasonable to me for YC to put alumni in contact with each other. I don't know if this is the case, but there might even be a founders mailing list. That would not surprise me.
Re: Ask HN: “Coinbase just sent you 0.002329 BTC”
#20Isn't this kind of a privacy breach if it's true? Why does Coinbase get access to emails of people that have applied to YC? I'm not generally a data privacy zealot or anything, but that seems sketchy that YC would provide a batch list of emails to companies for what is essentially advertising/spam...
Coinbase is a YC company. One of the primary functions of YC is networking. In that light, it seems pretty reasonable to me for YC to put alumni in contact with each other. I don't know if this is the case, but there might even be a founders mailing list. That would not surprise me.
I understand a mailing list for alumni, but this is for applicants.
I have never applied to YC - but is there a checkbox that says "It's cool to share my email with the 500+ YC alum companies"?