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Haus

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I love getting scam texts like these....
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And thinking to myself... They're sure doing a lot of work for a coinbase account with currently around $9 of scraps in it. Times must be rough for em.
 
Flobee

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The fact they even know you have a Coinbase account to try to scam you is an indictment of the KYC/AML structure. These institutions can't protect your data so they shouldn't be required to collect it.
 
Foler

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Flobee said:
The fact they even know you have a Coinbase account to try to scam you is an indictment of the KYC/AML structure. These institutions can't protect your data so they shouldn't be required to collect it.
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Who says they know? I also got this same text over the weekend.
 
Haus

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Flobee said:
They're targeting people that have exchange accounts, whether its coinbase or otherwise
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Why would they put that level of effort in? If you're carpet bombing text smishing you just throw at everybody. I've gotten attempts like this involving "bank account access" for banks I have never had accounts with.
 
Flobee

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Haus said:
Why would they put that level of effort in? If you're carpet bombing text smishing you just throw at everybody. I've gotten attempts like this involving "bank account access" for banks I have never had accounts with.
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I know for a fact KYC/AML databases are available for use publicly, hacks happen ALL the time. As to why to use one method over another, I could guess but you'd have to ask a scammer.
 
Haus

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So.. are we finally starting to see BTC actually decouple from the stock market and start behaving more like gold?

Unrelated but gave me a "reasonable chuckle"
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Arden

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Haus said:
So.. are we finally starting to see BTC actually decouple from the stock market and start behaving more like gold?

Unrelated but gave me a "reasonable chuckle"
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Looks like it. Posted about this almost a month ago when we first started to see the divergence. I was pretty cautious about claiming a true divergence at the time, but we've now seen some sustained action that continues to point in that direction.

Pretty awesome watching it happen. This is exactly what it was built for, but until now it hasn't really lived up to its potential. But then you could argue this is the opportunity it needed to do so.

Normal caveats: it could reverse course at any time. Also, if we get an actual crash of some sort, it's likely to drop with everything else due to a liquidity crunch- but it's also likely to come back quicker and rise to new heights.
 
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