Charlie Lee, the creator of Litecoin, spoke about the recent events surrounding Coinbase, in the seventeenth episode of Magical Crypto Friends. The podcast also included Riccardo Spagni aka Fluffypony, Samson Mow, and WhalePanda, the rest three members of Magical Crypto Friends.
Coinbase, one of the biggest exchanges in the U.S., has been in the headlines since the announcement of XRP listing, however, the negative news outweighed the positive ones. The negative fame started with rumors over insider trading, which broke out days after the platform listed the third-largest cryptocurrency by market cap. This gained momentum with the acquisition of a blockchain analytics firm, Neutrino, as it was revealed that the firm had an association with Hacking Team. This report led to the start of the #DeleteCoinbase movement.
Furthermore, the Director of Institutional Sales, Christine Sandler, stated that they were aware of the Neutrino-HackingTeam association, in an interview with Cheddar. To make things worse, she stated that they acquired the blockchain analytics firm because their “current clients were to outside sources”.
The controversy surrounding Coinbase-Hacking Team was soon addressed by Brian Armstrong, the CEO of Coinbase. In a blog post, he stated that the firm decided to let go of all the members previously associated with Hacking Team.
Charlie Lee said on #DeleteCoinbase,
“I thought like people have been deleting Coinbase for a while now right. I guess this Neutrino thing really brought this back out and people are like more upset about Coinbase and actually going out and deleting their accounts. But, you know, from my point of view, people who actually delete Coinbase, don’t actually use it anyways, right. So, its not really going to affect anything.”
This was followed with Riccardo Spagni, the lead maintainer of Monero, speaking about the topic. He said:
“I don’t think that the people that are deleting Coinbase are going to have more than a very minimal impact on the bottom line. […] I do think that there would be a trickle-down effect from the people that are deleting Coinbase […] So it is atleast going to provide a slow shift away from Coinbase as a first point of Contact for people wanting to get into bitcoin.”
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Published at Sat, 16 Mar 2019 17:20:47 +0000
