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Title: 2012-12-20 marketwire.com $1.3M Invested by FundersClub in Coinbase, Sponsorfied Post by: Akka on December 20, 2012, 02:46:13 PM Only indirectly related to Bitcoin:
Quote SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - Dec 20, 2012) - FundersClub (www.fundersclub.com), the world's first online venture capital platform, today announced that it has completed a number of investments -- bringing the total invested by the less than 5-month-old, revolutionary investment platform to $1.3 million. Coinbase, a wallet for the digital, decentralized currency bitcoin; Sponsorfied, a marketplace for sponsorships; and Tracks.by, a company that creates marketing campaigns between brands and artists around the world; join social video advertising startup Virool and FundersClub itself as the first group of FundersClub-funded startups. All hail from the Y Combinator Summer 2012 batch. But as they mention a Bitcoin project as first in their press release (probably due to alphabetic sorting :P) maybe it's a good way to ask them to add Bitcoin as payment method (using BitPay or another Merchant Service) themselves? You can contact them here: contact@thefundersclub.com (don't forget to mention Coinbase) Source: http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/fundersclub-seeds-fellow-y-combinator-alum-1740011.htm Title: Re: 2012-12-20 marketwire.com $1.3M Invested by FundersClub in Coinbase, Sponsorfied Post by: Stephen Gornick on December 20, 2012, 10:51:14 PM :P) maybe it's a good way to ask them to add Bitcoin as payment method (using BitPay or another Merchant Service) themselves? Ask who, Marketwire? FundersClub? Or ??? ??? But as they mention a Bitcoin project as first in their press release (probably due to alphabetic sorting That might explain why their site wasn't responding for a bit. Probably getting hammered with traffic and new signups. I don't see a Coinbase support thread or a main discussion thread for CoinBase here on BitcoinTalk. I just realized a flaw with how I was using their Two-Factor authentication. Coinbase doesn't use 2FA/Google Authenticator but instead used Authy. Authy is a great, easy to use mobile client. The way they transmit the secure code is via SMS. However, I personally don't trust SMS as it is not a secure transport method. And if you use something like Google Voice for your text messaging, that means that if you e-mail is compromised, the attacker can get Authy to send another SMS with a new code and then the attacker has the ability to get the Authy OTP as well. That is definitely more work for the attacker than simple username + password, but it still is not the level necessary for protecting a larger value in a Coinbase E-Wallet. For consumer level amounts this Authy 2FA will probably be plenty adequate. Title: Re: 2012-12-20 marketwire.com $1.3M Invested by FundersClub in Coinbase, Sponsorfied Post by: Akka on December 20, 2012, 11:18:47 PM Ask who, Marketwire? FundersClub? Or ??? ??? I meant whoever this address belongs to: You can contact them here: contact@thefundersclub.com Its a FundersClub press release, who else could I mean with their press release? |