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..... coinbase as ive used it since 2013 or so.
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Same here bro.
Only bitcoin outfit I have ever dealt with that has never once been hacked or I've ever had a single issue with in my seven years
in the crypto currency theater( and I've had a lot of them. )

Quote from: vapourminer on Today at 01:48:49 AM

.... be aware it gets a lot of hate for reasons but it works.

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A lot of Coinbase hate in the wob thread ??
Say it it ain't so!!! lmao

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Coinbase Offers US Feds New Crypto Surveillance Tools

https://www.coindesk.com/coinbase-analytics-blockchain-analysis-crypto-government

It's one thing to play by the rules and report to IRS which is required, but it's a different ball game to actively sell tracking software to governments, why are you funding this again?

Use gemini at least the Winterfloss twins are pro bitcoin

I remember I checked it and Gemini had huge fees... so what else can you suggest if not Coinbase? Kraken? Binance? Ol good Bitstamp? Cashout time is getting closer HODLers need to be ready... Cool

perhaps OTC is the way to go?

Open gemini ActiveTrader account initial taker fees are 0.35%
https://www.gemini.com/fees/activetrader-fee-schedule#section-active-trader-fee-schedule

of course bisq is also an option https://bisq.network/

I just looked at that Gemini fee schedule, and sure, the highest priced taker fees are .35%, like you said, and for those of us who are inclined to place orders, the maker fees are starting at .25%. Maybe I will have to start trading Gemini again? There was a period of time, maybe a couple of years ago, in which Gemini fees had gone up to 1% or something like that, and I cannot recall the exact details, but such raising of the fees seemed to have been more than double of other fees that I had been paying at that time.. so I reduced my number of trades on their platform - but now, the fees on Gemini are seeming much more competitive... so sure.. I am going to have to reconsider my activities on that platform...

By the way, with almost any trading platform I have had good and bad experiences, so I recall in late 2015 getting a bit pissed off at Gemini when they reversed some of the trades based on a fat thumb situation, and I was affected by that, even though such reversal of my trades did not cost me a whole lot, it still irritated me, and kind of messed up my system.

I had some good experiences with Coinbase in terms of recovering my account after it was hacked in early 2017.. and then at that point, Coinbase migrated my value over to another account.. so I thought that we were "all good" but then in early 2018 (I believe that was when it was), my CB account had gotten frozen based on a bank transfer of something like $500 that I had requested to have deposited into my CB account... I cannot recall the exact details, but it took CB nearly forever to communicate with me about what was going on, and they even seemed to blame the matter on my bank, and then I contacted my bank, and they said that they had not done anything to flag or freeze that $500 bank transfer request that ended up going back into my bank account. So after a few months of waiting and my asking CB about what was going on every couple of weeks, CB ended up giving me some vague-ass explanation that I needed to remove all my money off of their exchange.. they would not connect any other bank account with me (as I suggested as a possibility), and pretty much they allowed me to trade out of the dollars that were then on my CB account and to withdraw all of the BTC balance.. (I believe around the middle of 2018) which was pretty much.. .the end of my having any value on such account.

I did try to use my CB account after mid-2018, and it did not really allow me to do anything, and really hardly any explanation about what their supposed issue with me.. even though I had an account with them since late 2013 that had got transferred to another account in mid-2017... And, yeah, we have heard other stories about issues that people have had with Coinbase, and in my case, I just find the whole thing to be weird with the lack of explanation from them, my willingness to work with them, and even that I had pretty solid explanations for my source of funds through the times that I had those accounts, including that I had made quite a few purchase from them through the years, including in the early years, and even a lot of those were frequent small purchases, so in my seemingly normie thinkenings, I speculated that red flags should NOT have been there... but sure, there could be some desires for them to remove certain kinds of accounts - and my account fit within their target to remove definition, and they did not feel like I deserved any explanation for that.