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Comment by criddell | Hacker News Reader

Does anybody know what happened with the people on Reddit trying to organize and armed group to head to Coinbase to confront the CEO?

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I would hope that Coinbase would contact the FBI about this, and that the FBI would take it seriously.

Link to Reddit thread?

https://www.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/comments/7y0teq/anyone_wan...

Sounds like good material for a movie.

What genre would it be?

I don't know that yet, but we should jump on the crypto bandwagon and make an ICO for it.

I’ve long wondered how Coinbase can be resistant to an armed robbery of the office with staff present. Seems like a pretty interesting security engineering challenge.

Wouldn't surprise me if it was an organized (paid) troll campaign trying to stir up anti Coinbase sentiment. Small block fanatics have had it out for Coinbase ever since they published a blog post advocating for raising the block size. Ever since any hit of a problem they go out of their way to blow the issue out of proportion.

Perhaps the excessively angry reactions are just a natural response to the very poor customer support that these companies offer?

Often it feels like overreacting is the only way to extract a response from SV companies. Reminds me of the upwork story a few days back.

I think we can all agree there’s a huge difference between overreacting and plotting to arm yourself and storm Coinbase’s headquarters to “talk” to the CEO.

I think this only holds true if you assume the “plotters” were serious about their intentions.

Otherwise they were just silly people venting on internet forums. That certainly seems like a fairly standard form of overreaction.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not defending this behaviour. I’m just more interested in if there’s something that SV firms are doing that’s exacerbating it.

The problem with the broadcasting intentions on the internet is that even if you're not serious about your intentions, you could influence other people. Look at the guy who went into Comet Pizza with a gun, for example.

If anything, I think it makes me feel sympathy to Coinbase and the people that work there.

Hopefully they’ve been jailed.

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