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Topic: Coinbase Exchange Explain How They Saved Their Users From Twitter Hackers - page 2. (Read 270 times)

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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.

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.
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Quick thinking & execution on Coinbase part !
legendary
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I agree with what's mentioned above. It's an interesting pattern with this Twitter case, really. Twitter suffered a hack like it hasn't suffered before, but it was clearly carried out due to taking over some employees' accounts with, it seems, privileged access to data about the Twitter verified accounts. So while Twitter is behaving like a victim here, and also like a company that dealt with the issue very fast, it doesn't comment on why it was possible to gain access to those accounts through the accounts of their employees. Coinbase here is also trying to show that they're dealing great with the scam, but them being able to make this decision and deny a Bitcoin transaction of their users is itself disturbing.
legendary
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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.
legendary
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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

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.

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jr. member
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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
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