Topic: Coinbase Exchange Explain How They Saved Their Users From Twitter Hackers (Read 269 times)
September 14, 2020, 12:30:11 PM
Coinbase did a very good job to protect its users from giveaway scam, because it could have resulted in a permanent loss. Similarly, other exchages should approach the same steps to prevent scams in the future.
July 25, 2020, 09:07:31 PM
While coinbase has done great in this particular incident, but you have to look at the flipside as well. A central business authority prevented users to use their own money for whatsoever reasons. For this incident, Coinbase deserves a thumbs up, but in general, someone else controlling your money in a nutshell and they have the power to decide when and where you can spend your own money!
Not being pessimistic but that's the reality.
Whoever open accounts on coinbase and other CEX platform already know the platform also have control over their account. If they don't know, it is their responsible to the ToS. They could have allowed the transaction to go through but they didn't which they are fully taking responsibility for in case anyone think otherwise that they should have allow people to be able to spend their currency the way they like Not being pessimistic but that's the reality.
July 25, 2020, 07:41:18 PM
Since when I'm starting to get involved in crypto, I didn't ever tried to create an account at Coinbase. Probably because I prefer to use other wallet that I have my keys on like Electrum. I have read also here the famous quote "Not your keys, not your Bitcoins" and that is always in my mind whenever I choose a wallet.
What Coinbase did is a good move if you are an investor because they've prevented you from getting scammed yes but on the other hand, this is just a proof that they can control your transactions whenever they want too. It would be better if they experienced getting scammed than the wallet/company controlling your transaction.
What Coinbase did is a good move if you are an investor because they've prevented you from getting scammed yes but on the other hand, this is just a proof that they can control your transactions whenever they want too. It would be better if they experienced getting scammed than the wallet/company controlling your transaction.
July 25, 2020, 04:11:46 PM
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I think it is even better to keep certain amount of btc with coinbase if they can't be in private and secured wallets.
Wrong.I think it is even better to keep certain amount of btc with coinbase if they can't be in private and secured wallets.
Not your keys, not your bitcoins.
Your bitcoins held at Coinbase , thay are not yours, but theirs.
Personal financial sovereignity requires being capable of holding your private key, so it's better to study and hold your coins in a "private and secured wallet". There's plenty of options for doing that ordes of magnitude more secure and private than Coinbase.
July 25, 2020, 12:01:11 PM
How ever hacker or not coinbase team and other exchange have responsibility for all member become victim or twitter exchange hack, they are not reason with their official twitter hacked because they have good team how to manage their social media platform, they have ask many people to invest to their wallet after giving announcement on twitter.
July 25, 2020, 11:10:20 AM
While coinbase has done great in this particular incident, but you have to look at the flipside as well. A central business authority prevented users to use their own money for whatsoever reasons. For this incident, Coinbase deserves a thumbs up, but in general, someone else controlling your money in a nutshell and they have the power to decide when and where you can spend your own money!
Not being pessimistic but that's the reality.
Not being pessimistic but that's the reality.
You have your point regarding the control of your money because of certain restrictions or limitations embedded in the coinbase accounts but it is a matter of which is the greater devil. Now, some users have been saved from losing their btc.
I think it is even better to keep certain amount of btc with coinbase if they can't be in private and secured wallets.
July 24, 2020, 12:46:50 PM
+2 Merits for the positive contribution to the thread.
-1 Merit for still being a Coinbase Client.
You will +1 it if you know the fact why I am using coinbase. I am not using it's a wallet to store my coins. Coinabse is most popular in my country due to the fact of peer to peer free transactions. All bitcoin resellers in my country use coinbase to buy sell bitcoin. On the other hand, its instant peer to peer transaction made it easier to deal faster and save transaction fees. Of course, I never hold for a longer or a big amount. For example, I received a signature reward in coinbase and sell it instantly to local resellers without fees. If I receive my rewards to electrum then I have to pay transaction fees during the sale my funds. I am not encouraging to use coinbase or any centralized wallet, but the fact I told why I am using it temporarily. Just a question, why should I pay transaction fees for a small number of funds when I could deal it free and instantly? -1 Merit for still being a Coinbase Client.
Because you are KYC'd on coinbase and they are actively tracking your coin movements before and after the transaction with their exchange.
So you are effectively trading your future privacy for an immediate discount on the transaction fees.
You might be aware of this trade, as a sensible person reading bitcointalk.org: it's not clear everyone else is.
Trading privacy for a little convenience is one of the mostly underrated errors in privacy management.
July 24, 2020, 12:36:16 PM
+2 Merits for the positive contribution to the thread.
-1 Merit for still being a Coinbase Client.
You will +1 it if you know the fact why I am using coinbase. I am not using it's a wallet to store my coins. Coinabse is most popular in my country due to the fact of peer to peer free transactions. All bitcoin resellers in my country use coinbase to buy sell bitcoin. On the other hand, its instant peer to peer transaction made it easier to deal faster and save transaction fees. Of course, I never hold for a longer or a big amount. For example, I received a signature reward in coinbase and sell it instantly to local resellers without fees. If I receive my rewards to electrum then I have to pay transaction fees during the sale my funds. I am not encouraging to use coinbase or any centralized wallet, but the fact I told why I am using it temporarily. Just a question, why should I pay transaction fees for a small number of funds when I could deal it free and instantly? -1 Merit for still being a Coinbase Client.
July 24, 2020, 12:23:46 PM
Not your keys, not your bitcoins.
I don't care what they did or how. It was unethical. Censor transaction of a client could even mean a violation of the ToS.
Simply, better fall in a scam hodling your money in your wallet, than being babyguarded and having your transaction censored.
If you allow to censor your transaction once, you are allowing to do that everytime.
Coinbase the most anti-Bitcoin organisation. Make #DeleteCoinbase great again
I don't care what they did or how. It was unethical. Censor transaction of a client could even mean a violation of the ToS.
Simply, better fall in a scam hodling your money in your wallet, than being babyguarded and having your transaction censored.
If you allow to censor your transaction once, you are allowing to do that everytime.
Coinbase the most anti-Bitcoin organisation. Make #DeleteCoinbase great again
I like what you said. But if you sent your bitcoins to the exchange, they are technically no longer yours.
I think some people really need a baby sitter. I don't think that those people who wanted to send their BTC are examples of high intelligence.
And when you consider that they risk keeping their funds with a third party, the best thing a third party can do is to protect their users from scam.
Even in such an unethical way.
In my opinion, keeping bitcoins on the exchange in itself is not ethical.
July 24, 2020, 12:23:16 PM
While coinbase has done great in this particular incident, but you have to look at the flipside as well. A central business authority prevented users to use their own money for whatsoever reasons. For this incident, Coinbase deserves a thumbs up, but in general, someone else controlling your money in a nutshell and they have the power to decide when and where you can spend your own money!
Not being pessimistic but that's the reality.
Not being pessimistic but that's the reality.
Hoping that most of the exchange are responsible about its customers safety and monitoring of scam transactions.
Coinbase exchange will surely have a massive increase in its reputation as it prevented users to engage in a harmful scams where they will lose their money.
Reputation is what an exchange needs, and talking about reputation coinbase has already a lot of it.It is not only those victim's fault, but also Twitter's, their platform should be accountable about these scenarios where people don't feel any comfortableness in using their platform. I don't really believe that it is not their fault, scammers used a high profile personality that's why believing in that tweet is easy for those people who trust easily.
There have been cases like this before if I'm not mistaken, I guess twitter is more prone to this incident because they are decentralized. Ever wonder facebook has less events like this? count their servers 
July 24, 2020, 12:16:47 PM
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If you were really happy to scammed or owe money, then it wasn't difficult to withdraw another address then send it to the scammer. They have notified to their users why they prevent sending funds to the scammers. I had seen warning noticed when open coinbase wallet.
If you were really happy to scammed or owe money, then it wasn't difficult to withdraw another address then send it to the scammer. They have notified to their users why they prevent sending funds to the scammers. I had seen warning noticed when open coinbase wallet.
+2 Merits for the positive contribution to the thread.
-1 Merit for still being a Coinbase Client.
Regarding the fact they blocked only the scammer's address, leaving ample way to circumvent this block, changes almost nothing in my view.
I understand mine could be seen as an "extreme" position, but I have more than enough of people pretending to take care of me on a non explicitly requested manner.
July 24, 2020, 12:07:41 PM
If I give them the order to payt a scammer, why should they block this order? Maybe I am happy to be scammed, maybe I owe themy money because they lent me money before, or any other unknown reason.
You are right, but you know this is a centralized exchange. I can't see any valid reason to disagree with them except to centralize regulation. We must say that they took the right and real-time decision to save their customers. They didn't prevent you to spend your money, but they prevent you from scammers which you aren't aware of really. If you were really happy to scammed or owe money, then it wasn't difficult to withdraw another address then send it to the scammer. They have notified to their users why they prevent sending funds to the scammers. I had seen warning noticed when open coinbase wallet. 
July 24, 2020, 12:05:35 PM
If I had an account at coinbase, my interaction with coinbase would be regulated with an agreement. The agreement, in loos terms, requires them to execute my orders.
If I give them the order to payt a scammer, why should they block this order? Maybe I am happy to be scammed, maybe I owe themy money because they lent me money before, or any other unknown reason.
Did they now officially block the orders?If I give them the order to payt a scammer, why should they block this order? Maybe I am happy to be scammed, maybe I owe themy money because they lent me money before, or any other unknown reason.
At first I thought maybe they simply showed a pop up message like "You are about to send your BTC to a scammer. Do you want to continue with this?".
Well, since we are in a bitcoin forum here, I strongly assume that no one considers it a good thing when their orders can simply be stopped.
July 24, 2020, 12:02:49 PM
Surprised when I read this news and was thinking that all exchanges should take steps in future like coinbase. Coinbase prevented 30 bitcoins($195000) of their 1000 users.
Source. https://cryptodaily.co.uk/2020/07/coinbase-hackers-users-twitter
I do noticed that warning on my coinbase app and its really good news that they saved some innocent users from being victims.As others said it has bad side as well and we can't expect much of freedom when we use centralized wallet services that is why we always should own a wallet not an exchange based wallet for storing coins. Source. https://cryptodaily.co.uk/2020/07/coinbase-hackers-users-twitter
July 24, 2020, 11:52:09 AM
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Sure Coinbase has other unethical practice. Maybe their mere existence as a wallet is counter-intuitive for BTC, but preventing theft isn't unethical. Unless we bitcoiners want to build a new book of ethics ofc.
Sure Coinbase has other unethical practice. Maybe their mere existence as a wallet is counter-intuitive for BTC, but preventing theft isn't unethical. Unless we bitcoiners want to build a new book of ethics ofc.
If I had an account at coinbase, my interaction with coinbase would be regulated with an agreement. The agreement, in loos terms, requires them to execute my orders.
If I give them the order to payt a scammer, why should they block this order? Maybe I am happy to be scammed, maybe I owe themy money because they lent me money before, or any other unknown reason.
It's the contract, not they willingness to protect me on my behalf that must regulate their actions.
Because once you allow them to censor a transaction for the right reason, they are going to do so for the wrong one.
My observation was from a point of view regarding ethics. For everything else, there's competition among wallet software where each developer (or open source user) can code his wallet to act as he wants. So in terms of bitcoin as a whole, there's no issue of censorship slippery slope under this hypothetical. Aside of that, I ain't worried of customer protection under the pretense of a company and users of their services.
July 24, 2020, 11:44:56 AM
the timing of the twitter hack came in clutch for Coinbase as they were in deep waters (i think?) given the "controversy" about the company "selling blockchain analytics software to the US Secret Service", but a few days later "hey, they saved the users money so it's all good, no?" 
I hope this news will be an eye opener to those who were looking for financial sovereignty, found out about btc and thought keeping the coins in a "trusted exchange" was a good idea. Most bitcoin newcomers that are trying to keep their money outside of the system still don't know that they [exchanges] have as much power over their coins as the banks have over their accounts
Not your keys, not your bitcoins.
I don't care what they did or how. It was unethical. Censor transaction of a client could even mean a violation of the ToS.
heh! yeah i still remember that quote, you remember the "get btc and be your own bank" one? funny how the narrative has changed, right? nowadays you barely see those quotes, now everyone's embracing the banks and centralized exchanges, and Coinbase is literally acting like a bank now by freezing their customers acc (which begs the question of whether they violated the ToS like you say or not, banks usually stop any movements in an acc they deem as compromised/suspicious)I don't care what they did or how. It was unethical. Censor transaction of a client could even mean a violation of the ToS.
I hope this news will be an eye opener to those who were looking for financial sovereignty, found out about btc and thought keeping the coins in a "trusted exchange" was a good idea. Most bitcoin newcomers that are trying to keep their money outside of the system still don't know that they [exchanges] have as much power over their coins as the banks have over their accounts
July 24, 2020, 11:38:14 AM
Because once you allow them to censor a transaction for the right reason, they are going to do so for the wrong one.
This is the main issue, allowing a third party make unilateral decisions on how you spend your assets is not advisable. If censoring addresses becomes a trend among exchanges it could lead to then asking to verify and whitelist recipients of funds from their website even if owners of such addresses don't use their platform. It could also give their customers an impression of faux safety, so any address they're allowed to send to is considered legitimate.
July 24, 2020, 11:19:36 AM
While coinbase has done great in this particular incident, but you have to look at the flipside as well. A central business authority prevented users to use their own money for whatsoever reasons. For this incident, Coinbase deserves a thumbs up, but in general, someone else controlling your money in a nutshell and they have the power to decide when and where you can spend your own money!
Not being pessimistic but that's the reality.
Not being pessimistic but that's the reality.
Hoping that most of the exchange are responsible about its customers safety and monitoring of scam transactions.
Coinbase exchange will surely have a massive increase in its reputation as it prevented users to engage in a harmful scams where they will lose their money.
It is not only those victim's fault, but also Twitter's, their platform should be accountable about these scenarios where people don't feel any comfortableness in using their platform. I don't really believe that it is not their fault, scammers used a high profile personality that's why believing in that tweet is easy for those people who trust easily.
July 24, 2020, 11:10:47 AM
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Sure Coinbase has other unethical practice. Maybe their mere existence as a wallet is counter-intuitive for BTC, but preventing theft isn't unethical. Unless we bitcoiners want to build a new book of ethics ofc.
Sure Coinbase has other unethical practice. Maybe their mere existence as a wallet is counter-intuitive for BTC, but preventing theft isn't unethical. Unless we bitcoiners want to build a new book of ethics ofc.
If I had an account at coinbase, my interaction with coinbase would be regulated with an agreement. The agreement, in loos terms, requires them to execute my orders.
If I give them the order to payt a scammer, why should they block this order? Maybe I am happy to be scammed, maybe I owe themy money because they lent me money before, or any other unknown reason.
It's the contract, not they willingness to protect me on my behalf that must regulate their actions.
Because once you allow them to censor a transaction for the right reason, they are going to do so for the wrong one.
July 24, 2020, 10:40:16 AM
Surprised when I read this news and was thinking that all exchanges should take steps in future like coinbase. Coinbase prevented 30 bitcoins($195000) of their 1000 users.
Source. https://cryptodaily.co.uk/2020/07/coinbase-hackers-users-twitter
Source. https://cryptodaily.co.uk/2020/07/coinbase-hackers-users-twitter
Not your keys, not your bitcoins.
I don't care what they did or how. It was unethical. Censor transaction of a client could even mean a violation of the ToS.
Simply, better fall in a scam hodling your money in your wallet, than being babyguarded and having your transaction censored.
If you allow to censor your transaction once, you are allowing to do that everytime.
Coinbase the most anti-Bitcoin organisation. Make #DeleteCoinbase great again
Given that "not your keys, not your bitcoins" is true, then Coinbase would not only be liable of allowing the extortion to take place while they knew so, but it'd also be against their rational interest since it was as you say, their money. So I don't see why preventing someone from a sure monetary loss would be unethical by any standard.
Sure Coinbase has other unethical practice. Maybe their mere existence as a wallet is counter-intuitive for BTC, but preventing theft isn't unethical. Unless we bitcoiners want to build a new book of ethics ofc.
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