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Mint now lets users keep track of their Bitcoins

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Re: Mint now lets users keep track of their Bitcoins

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Post by ilyanep »

usaphp wrote: post #9
damon_c wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ha, yes... and support for not counting money transferred from savings to checking as income would be nice too.

And the money withdrawn from PayPal account to bank account.

And realizing that my credit card bill that's due Feb 2nd was paid a month ago.

Re: Mint now lets users keep track of their Bitcoins

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Post by higherpurpose »

DLarsen wrote: post #10
imkevinxu wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been thinking about that for a while. Besides a different design and time to reach feature parity, what would be the "unique" thing to solve the problem of managing one's finances?

As a hobby project, I'm working on a tool to help improve spending habits. I'm not crazy enough to imagine I'd ever reach feature parity with mint, but I personally know plenty of folks who use the well known personal finance tools yet seem to make a lot of careless purchases they later regret. And while mint is fine for what it does, I don't think it really points you in the direction of disciplined, thoughtful spen…

I think gamification of "saving habits" would be very interesting - something to encourage you to save more. But it shouldn't take a lot of time to set-up or be confusing. If it would be automatic, even better.

Re: Mint now lets users keep track of their Bitcoins

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Post by jmduke »

imkevinxu wrote: post #6
lowglow wrote: post #5

Does anyone think there is room for a new mint-like service?

I've been thinking about that for a while. Besides a different design and time to reach feature parity, what would be the "unique" thing to solve the problem of managing one's finances?

I don't know if this exists (as someone who uses Mint but doesn't know the space well), but I would kill for a service that aggregates and simply reports my monthly bills for me. I don't need Mint's level of granularity and feature parity: I need a service that reminds me about the $5/mo I'm paying on a subscription that I haven't used in two years.

Re: Mint now lets users keep track of their Bitcoins

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Post by EdJiang »

This integration is NOT SECURE.

Mint asks for your API key, which Coinbase implements rather poorly. Your API key will grant any application FULL ACCESS to your Coinbase account, so if Mint gets compromised, the attacker can send your Bitcoin to another account. And Bitcoin transactions are irreversible.

Yes, you do give Mint your bank account credentials, but if someone steals your username/password and use it to send a transaction, you can get it reversed.

Mint can easily fix this by using Coinbase's OAuth API instead of using an API Key, which allows for selective permissions (read-only) to be set.

Re: Mint now lets users keep track of their Bitcoins

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Post by lowglow »

jmduke wrote: post #13
imkevinxu wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been thinking about that for a while. Besides a different design and time to reach feature parity, what would be the "unique" thing to solve the problem of managing one's finances?

I don't know if this exists (as someone who uses Mint but doesn't know the space well), but I would kill for a service that aggregates and simply reports my monthly bills for me. I don't need Mint's level of granularity and feature parity: I need a service that reminds me about the $5/mo I'm paying on a subscription that I haven't used in two years.

Boom. We can build this.

Re: Mint now lets users keep track of their Bitcoins

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Post by twofishies »

jmduke wrote: post #13
imkevinxu wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been thinking about that for a while. Besides a different design and time to reach feature parity, what would be the "unique" thing to solve the problem of managing one's finances?

I don't know if this exists (as someone who uses Mint but doesn't know the space well), but I would kill for a service that aggregates and simply reports my monthly bills for me. I don't need Mint's level of granularity and feature parity: I need a service that reminds me about the $5/mo I'm paying on a subscription that I haven't used in two years.

Ever heard of mergepay.com, not public yet but is basically a Mint.com-type service for business.

Re: Mint now lets users keep track of their Bitcoins

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Post by astrange »

peter_l_downs wrote: post #2

I wish they'd add support for not double-counting my credit card purchases instead.

All JPY transactions in my paypal are reported 100x too large in USD ($525 per month recurring bills instead of $5.25).

I did report it once and got back a message saying "sorry, we can't fix your existing records", but they clearly made no attempt to fix it for new ones either.

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