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Re: Coinbase Cloud

#51

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Then don’t use it haha. There’s always so many HN users talking up these so-called breaches and acting like they matter when they probably have a grand total combined spend authority of $100 for snacks at the weekly happy hour.

I was a pre-sale investor in Ethereum, have been in Bitcoin since it was Next up, Coinbase NFT verification services (Sotheby's of the future!). My sides are sore.

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Re: Coinbase Cloud

#53

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That's nearly 4 days out of service a year with no recourse. This should be unacceptable for any financial service.

4 whole days! They'll never recover from this, right?

I would be not long for this world if a service I helped maintain was down for four days.

Re: Coinbase Cloud

#54

Didn't Microsoft Azure's blockchain platform fail? It was shutdown earlier this month [1]. How is this different and/or better? [1] https://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/microsoft-azure-b...

I think Microsoft and others like IBM failed to “get it”. They tried to adopt blockchain tech without the cryptocurrency aspect, failing to realize there needs to be a built-in incentive structure for people to participate on any blockchain network. Mining, staking, and other proof / reward systems are required for any blockchain tech to get off the ground.

IBM and Microsoft cater to enterprises. Enterprises whose entrenched positions are challenged by decentralized systems. Centralizing a decentralized system is done either to bootstrap it (optimistic) or embrace, extend, and extinguish it (pessimistic). A corporation alone might not need a blockchain, but has no choice but to participate if that’s where the market is, and a consensus of participants (no pun intended) is who determines that technology (not corporate procurement).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

Re: Coinbase Cloud

#55
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99% uptime guarantee is embarrassingly low.

They were probably faced with decision: Release now and improve over time, or don't release now. We don't live in the time of option B. Option B is the path of ruin.

That's the attitude you want from a financial service, YOLO BUILD FAST AND BREAK THINGS.

We absolutely live in a time where you can engineer things well, especially at the scale of a publicly traded company. They aren't some scrappy startup desperately trying to get their first users.

Re: Coinbase Cloud

#56

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If all your customers get sim swapped because you offered 2FA over SMS then it's your fault as a service provider.

"all" customers? Or do you mean 6,000 out of 60m +?

Either works for the example. You should be liable for offering something that is easily exploited that affects your customers.

Re: Coinbase Cloud

#57
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Will this service be using Rust?

I think they’re a Go/Typescript shop, but crypto does love Rust!

Cardano ecosystem used to use Rust a lot. Currently moving to Haskell. Few other big ecosystems using Rust too.

Imo future is more expressive rust-like languages.

Re: Coinbase Cloud

#58

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Don't we already know it wasn't actually a breach?

If all your customers get sim swapped because you offered 2FA over SMS then it's your fault as a service provider.

Couldn't we shift the fault back a step? If it's so easy to SIM swap people, shouldn't the telecoms be liable for damages to their customers in the event of a SIM swap?

Re: Coinbase Cloud

#60

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If that is the net you are casting that is going to be a very wide net. SMS 2fa isn’t great but there are lots of places that use it.

They should all be liable for damages if anything bad happens as a result of account misappropriation IMO

Coinbase is making all the affected customers whole. What more liability do you want?
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