Seems like we just need to circle back and then double click into this. I don’t want there to be any lack of alignment in this cross functional group.

Sometimes Coinbase is integrated into the checkout flow for “pay with crypto”, but it shouldn’t be needed for most crypto transactions.

Generally the guidance is not to keep funds in an exchange any longer than needed. That’s what you should think of Coinbase as, so no, you shouldn’t keep coins in Coinbase long term. I’m not as deep into BTC, I only hold a little ETH, so my setup might be a little different to yours.

I’d recommend Metamask for a wallet. I think they just added BTC support as well. You will get a recovery phrase when you set up any wallet, make sure you keep it in a safe place, this phrase IS your money. If someone gets it, they have your money. Guard it.

Lemme address your other questions point by point:

• I need a Coinbase account to receive BTC, but I don’t need to keep it there

Nope. You don’t need Coinbase at all. Your wallet can send a receive directly. You need Coinbase to go back and forth between fiat currency (dollars or whatever).

Does it cost anything to move my BTC out of Coinbase?

Yes. All crypto transactions charge a fee. I don’t know if Coinbase charges on top of that, but probably a bit.

is Coinbase safe?

Eh, safe enough. They are publicly traded and US based so that should give you some comfort, but exchanges get hacked and fail, which is why even if they are the best company in the world, you shouldn’t let them hold on to your coins long term.

Hope this helps!

These posts about it got me to try switching from a windows gaming machine to a Linux one and I’ve been very happy so far. If you’re on the edge, just give it a try.

I should call her.

The most alarming evolution in this variant is its aggressive volatility. While the primary goal remains credential theft, the malware includes a destructive fail-safe that triggers if it cannot establish persistence or exfiltrate data.

Certainly as escalation compared to what you normally see in NPM attacks.

Cost and risk.

Edge networking services can be expensive and Cloudflare offers a free tier which is decent. Additionally, I’m sure down detector has a method of making money, but I sure don’t pay them. I can’t imagine I’m the weird one. So they are almost certainly operating on a tight budget.

It’s fresh in our minds today, but these big providers are way more reliable than not. It makes sense to use them because they are generally not down.

It just doesn’t make sense to do anything different. I doubt they change even after this outage. I certainly wouldn’t.

Cloudflare is a standard piece of kit for any moderately popular website. It handles things like strict SSL enforcement, anti ddos (this is a big reason), and other edge networking functions that modern websites need.

Same here. I won’t consider any of them and I was going to get an index, but it’s getting pretty old.

I had an original oculus dev kit and thought it was cool back then. Frame is gonna be an instant buy for me and I’m beyond excited.

That would be great except they are made of zinc.

This is a teaser. It’s not meant to answer all those questions (although the full hardware page does answer a lot). It’s to get you thinking and talking about it. More details will come, but they haven’t even announced an order date and deliver is still “early 2026”.

What is farming if not gardening at scale?

Whipped frosting maybe wasn’t the best choice for the turdkey.

You really get robbed on the salted variety. You get 9 extra peanuts worth in the unsalted package.

It costs all telephony users money to receive texts. Even texts they don’t want they are still on the hook for. It’s not much, only about 6/10’s of a cent, but still. Every reply you send results in them being billed.

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I’m so confused, did his boobs get removed?

Like…AI therapy?

Oof. Sorry to hear it, hopefully you are making or have made a full recovery. 🙏🏻