That statement does not inspire confidence considering how ripe crypto is for hackers/scammers, if anything it makes me want to close my Coinbase account.

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coldpie 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Very early in the first Bitcoin boom cycle I had a friend who was into it, so I opened a Coinbase account because I thought it'd be funny to pay him the $15 I owed him for lunch or whatever in Bitcoin. I bought the $15 on a credit card, sent it to his wallet, we had our laughs about it, and I moved on. Years later, after it became clear that the only purpose of cryptocurrencies is scams & crime, I went to close my Coinbase account just for some basic digital hygiene. Except I found out that now, they only let you log in if you have an external bank account associated with your Coinbase account. And you can't delete your account without logging in. And there's no way in hell I'm associating my real bank account with a scam & crime agency. So I'm stuck with a Coinbase account I can't close or even log in to. Lol.

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Rebelgecko 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If you joined when Coinbase was still giving 0.1BTC signup bonuses, it might be worth trying to retrieve the account

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b00mer 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There's a law for that. If Coinbase did not require an external bank account to create the coinbase account, by law, they cannot require one to close the account. At least, that is what I have been led to believe. You could sue.

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coldpie 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I have to admit I'm always baffled by these "you could sue over this trivial matter" replies. Do you think lawsuits cost no time or money? Obviously I'm not going to do that.

	▲	projektfu 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You could at least write a letter.

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hluska 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You’re giving legal advice based upon something you were lead to believe. That’s the first problem. The second problem is that proving damages would be difficult. The third is that you’re operating in a pay to play justice system.

Maybe you don’t have to make comments like this?

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itbeho 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Closing mine today