Well you can set up coinbase.com/yourname if you want, I just tried, it's fine.
Perhaps they should reserve whatever URL they're going to use as an example and in their marketing material and redirect that to the settings (or a sales) page.
Perhaps too, they shouldn't write an <a> tag where the text is a URL and the href is a different URL.
I should add, I really like the look of this as a product. I love the idea that I can simply send someone to a web address and they can pay me. The above is merely a comment on the marketing and a small detail, not a criticism of what looks like a great addition.
Yeah, make news out of no news... If I was them, I'd rather ask people to link Twitter and use the Twitter ID, and not reinvent yet another ID system! I'm tired of companies using cheap tricks like this to attract some temporary attention.
Yeah, gang up, Bitcoin maniacs, and downvote everything that's not affecting the price positively... I thought this was a place for hackers, who want to improve the world with code, and not for the scum of earth - the speculators, but, I guess, some would rather sell their soul for cheap than be honest and act like the real deal.
My comment was more than just a complaint about the cowardly downvotes. It's pretty much a post on its own, but I know what you mean. I just am getting tired of the overactive Bitcoin propaganda guys, that's all.
I didn't downvote you, but - this site is run by a VC, and what's a VC if not a speculator on the future of unproven companies?
Personally, I think speculators are unfairly targeted. What's wrong or dishonest about making risky bets with your own money? Sure, there are dishonest speculators, but that's hardly an unique trait of the profession.
Paul Graham is not the typical VC and that's why I like him. Or at least he doesn't act like most. He's not a speculator either. Or at least he hides it very well.
There's no honest speculation when you think about it. In order for a speculator to profit, somebody else needs to lose or profit less. Speculation changes the natural demand-supply dynamics of a marketplace for personal parasitic profit. In Bitcoin, this is destructive. It makes Bitoin worse than the status quo.
Just one example, because I mentioned honesty... The pitch just recently was that Bitcoin gives you independence from the Fed, Wall St, the greedy banks, etc. Now, the same people, who hold a few bitcoins, and are waiting for one to be worth a million dollar before they sell, get so excited and retweet every piece of news about those who they were supposed to be saving the world from. Same people curse the Chinese when they sell off, but get overly excited when same Chinese drive a rally. Anyway...
Well, my simplified definition is a gambler on the financial markets - one who bets on price fluctuations. Although I'm not a financial expert, after some thinking, maybe speculators help market liquidity (at times), but I still think that they are parasitic market participants. In Bitcoin, they drive price volatility, and this way hurt its adoption, and make it less suitable as a transactional currency.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 45.2 ms ] threadPerhaps they should reserve whatever URL they're going to use as an example and in their marketing material and redirect that to the settings (or a sales) page.
Perhaps too, they shouldn't write an <a> tag where the text is a URL and the href is a different URL.
I should add, I really like the look of this as a product. I love the idea that I can simply send someone to a web address and they can pay me. The above is merely a comment on the marketing and a small detail, not a criticism of what looks like a great addition.
Personally, I think speculators are unfairly targeted. What's wrong or dishonest about making risky bets with your own money? Sure, there are dishonest speculators, but that's hardly an unique trait of the profession.
There's no honest speculation when you think about it. In order for a speculator to profit, somebody else needs to lose or profit less. Speculation changes the natural demand-supply dynamics of a marketplace for personal parasitic profit. In Bitcoin, this is destructive. It makes Bitoin worse than the status quo.
Just one example, because I mentioned honesty... The pitch just recently was that Bitcoin gives you independence from the Fed, Wall St, the greedy banks, etc. Now, the same people, who hold a few bitcoins, and are waiting for one to be worth a million dollar before they sell, get so excited and retweet every piece of news about those who they were supposed to be saving the world from. Same people curse the Chinese when they sell off, but get overly excited when same Chinese drive a rally. Anyway...