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Re: Coinbase blocks WikiLeaks Shop

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Post by roywiggins »

matt4077 wrote: post #5

Fun to see how bitcoin has come full circle in reinventing everything its cheerleaders initially railed against: fraud, then centralization, regulation, and now “censorship”. I guess the lesson here should be about the primacy of law, and how you won’t succeed in using technology to undermine it.

It's not really Bitcoin's fault that people are using Coinbase.

But the fact is, there's always a price to decentralization. Centralized services are fast and can be cheaper! It's not a huge surprise that something that seems bulky and annoying to deal with has sprouted companies like Coinbase.

Re: Coinbase blocks WikiLeaks Shop

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Post by fareesh »

roywiggins wrote: post #17
Retroity wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't worry guys, the DNC said so, so it must be true!

"It is time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is – a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia. In January of this year, our Intelligence Community determined that Russian military intelligence—the GRU—had used WikiLeaks to release data of US victims that the GRU had obtained through cyber operations against the Democratic National Committee. And the report also found tha…

Even if Satan himself proved he was real and aided Wikileaks by publishing true information, I'd be all for it. What's being suggested is that they selectively publish true information by not publishing certain things that don't suit a particular agenda. This accusation is being asserted without evidence, and can therefore be dismissed without evidence.

Re: Coinbase blocks WikiLeaks Shop

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Post by sneak »

roywiggins wrote: post #17
Retroity wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't worry guys, the DNC said so, so it must be true!

"It is time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is – a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia. In January of this year, our Intelligence Community determined that Russian military intelligence—the GRU—had used WikiLeaks to release data of US victims that the GRU had obtained through cyber operations against the Democratic National Committee. And the report also found tha…

“hostile intelligence service” here being used as a euphemism for “a journalist publishing secrets we don’t want published”.

Re: Coinbase blocks WikiLeaks Shop

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Post by sneak »

matt4077 wrote: post #5

Fun to see how bitcoin has come full circle in reinventing everything its cheerleaders initially railed against: fraud, then centralization, regulation, and now “censorship”. I guess the lesson here should be about the primacy of law, and how you won’t succeed in using technology to undermine it.

Coinbase is not bitcoin.

Re: Coinbase blocks WikiLeaks Shop

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Post by onetimemanytime »

pera wrote: post #18
onetimemanytime wrote: post #13

Wikileaks, rightly or wrongly, has essentially been declared an enemy of USA. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cia-wikileaks/cia-chief-c... I do not blame Coinbase

Declared by whom? Your cited article says: > Pompeo, in an address at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank, called WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange “a fraud” and “a coward.” > “It is time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is, a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia,” Pompeo said. I wouldn't taken this particular statement as the official posit…

The CIA director, a former Congressman and a Republican said that. I mean, you want to know what the Center for Disease Control and EPA think of Wikileaks?

Re: Coinbase blocks WikiLeaks Shop

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Post by darawk »

bhouston wrote: post #16
trumped wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Coinbase has been fishy from the start... For example, I placed buy orders for some Bitcoins when they dropped sharply years ago (Coinbase just started at that time) and they canceled those orders after I placed them. Now what they do is that they bring the servers down when it happens. They did the same with Bitcoin Cash, or maybe worst... (see stories about when they first introduced bitcoin cash)

Is coinbase becoming hegemonic over cryptocurrencies? So much for decentralization.

Not at all. There's plenty of alternatives to Coinbase:

https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/volume/24-hour/

Re: Coinbase blocks WikiLeaks Shop

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Post by jamespo »

fareesh wrote: post #22
roywiggins wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"It is time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is – a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia. In January of this year, our Intelligence Community determined that Russian military intelligence—the GRU—had used WikiLeaks to release data of US victims that the GRU had obtained through cyber operations against the Democratic National Committee. And the report also found tha…

Even if Satan himself proved he was real and aided Wikileaks by publishing true information, I'd be all for it. What's being suggested is that they selectively publish true information by not publishing certain things that don't suit a particular agenda. This accusation is being asserted without evidence, and can therefore be dismissed without evidence.

Indeed, just a coincidence since http://foreignpolicy.com/2010/11/01/russias-fsb-to-wikileaks... wikileaks hasn't posted anything meaningful about Russia

Re: Coinbase blocks WikiLeaks Shop

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Post by darawk »

fareesh wrote: post #22
roywiggins wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"It is time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is – a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia. In January of this year, our Intelligence Community determined that Russian military intelligence—the GRU—had used WikiLeaks to release data of US victims that the GRU had obtained through cyber operations against the Democratic National Committee. And the report also found tha…

Even if Satan himself proved he was real and aided Wikileaks by publishing true information, I'd be all for it. What's being suggested is that they selectively publish true information by not publishing certain things that don't suit a particular agenda. This accusation is being asserted without evidence, and can therefore be dismissed without evidence.

> This accusation is being asserted without evidence, and can therefore be dismissed without evidence.

What? There's plenty of evidence. Wikileaks consistently published information damaging to Hillary Clinton in the run-up to the election, and published zero information damaging to Trump.

Re: Coinbase blocks WikiLeaks Shop

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Post by Y_Y »

fareesh wrote: post #22
roywiggins wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"It is time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is – a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia. In January of this year, our Intelligence Community determined that Russian military intelligence—the GRU—had used WikiLeaks to release data of US victims that the GRU had obtained through cyber operations against the Democratic National Committee. And the report also found tha…

Even if Satan himself proved he was real and aided Wikileaks by publishing true information, I'd be all for it. What's being suggested is that they selectively publish true information by not publishing certain things that don't suit a particular agenda. This accusation is being asserted without evidence, and can therefore be dismissed without evidence.

"If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons." - Churchill

Re: Coinbase blocks WikiLeaks Shop

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Post by return1 »

largehotcoffee wrote: post #6

I cannot recommend Coinbase at all. I operate an adult comic book publisher and they shutdown our account without notice and blamed the bank they work with (despite the fact that we were not converting our BTC to USD). All support tickets took weeks to get a reply and it was always unhelpful. For a company like ours the whole appeal of Bitcoin is the anonymity, so our readers don't have to worry about buying lewd com…

What is the use of coinbase? you can accept payments directly
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