The interesting question is whether people would be happy to buy their burgers from such a place. I guess there is only one way to find out. It might prove not as popular as staffed restaurants. Robots sound cheap, but they require upfront capital and maintenance. If a robot restaurant did less turnover than a staffed restaurant, then the lack of RoI would mean a switch back to staffing.

There isn't any coin that gives 5.4% return a day. If there was then $1 would turn into $217 million in a year with reinvestment and compound interest. Does that sound likely?

Segwit was supposed to be released in April, and we're nearly in June. The halving will happen in a few weeks, and Segwit won't be released in time for it...

There are a few remittance businesses already in force. I think Africa uses the MPesa network and the Philippines uses rebit.ph.

You might want to read the following articles to get a better understanding of the remittances-by-bitcoin space:

https://medium.com/@Cryptonight/bitcoin-doesn-t-make-remittances-cheaper-eb5f437849fe


https://letstalkpayments.com/19-bitcoin-remittance-startups-that-wont-let-the-cryptocurrency-die/


http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/030816/world-will-soon-use-bitcoin-send-money-home.asp

The gist seems to be that moving money is easy but the infrastructure at either end is difficult.

They allow Americans to use bitcoin easily. In 2013, when Forbes did a series of articles about trying to live on bitcoin, it wouldn't have been possible without Coinbase - they essentially allowed the writer to transfer fiat to Coinbase, buy BTC easily, and then use it via their app. With everyone else you need cumbersome (and expensive) procedures to purchase it if you are American (Europeans have it easier thanks to Kraken).

As of October 2015 Coinbase had 2.7 million customers - I don't think any other bitcoin service has that much reach.

DAO is available on both Poloniex and Bittrex. I think someone did a thread on this forum for how to buy them on Bittrex - do a search on his forum to find it.

LOL They seem to be getting desperate. Their arguments would have more weight if so many economies in the eurozone weren't struggling under severe austerity and recession.

Nobody can make 1000% in 2 months, not even the professional investors. Sell your losing alts, and get a job. Then perhaps you stand a chance of earning back the money you lost.

That's an interesting article. It explains why there are so many anti-Coinbase shills trolling this forum at the moment.  Can you smell the panic?

This. They are under concerted attack from people cross at them for adding Ether. What did blockstream expect? All the stuff they promised (SegWit etc) hasn't happened, and the network is getting more and more congested. It is natural for Coinbase to respond - because their users want an alternative too.

Activity is the lesser of your post count and 14, and it updates every two weeks. So in two weeks time it should go up.

If you stopped dealing with them a couple of years ago, why are you so obsessed with them? Live your life and be happy! 

Sounds like an orchestrated campaign from people who got caught by Coinbase's risk/fraud management procedures and are sore.  

They have venture capital behind them, and they have insurance. The whole point of insurance is to protect you from bankruptcy - you pay your premium to transfer the risk to the insurer. Of all the exchanges out there they are the least likely to go bust because of that.

You are not going to earn a living from a signature campaign. But if you post on here anyway, you might as well have one, and collect extra bitcoin on the side for doing what you would be doing anyway.

If there is a global crash, the dollar will rise - flight to safety. It happened during the financial crisis of 2008, and then in 2013 during the eurozone crisis - the dollar rose both times.

The dollar isn't going anywhere (and neither is the pound or swiss franc). They are backed by stable democracies, and yes they will have recessions from time to time because recessions are normal, but nothing is going to happen to their currencies.

It is the weak countries that will adopt bitcoin. What will happen is their own currencies become worthless but they can't get hold of US dollars (because of capital controls), so they will opt for bitcoin as the next best thing. See Venezuela for this in action. The bolivar has collapsed, the people want US dollars, they can't get them, so some are opting for btc.

Nonsense! You need cash to pay for taxis and in pubs (neither of which will accept cards or bitcoin). Also farmers market stalls and open air car boot sales and temporary christmas market stalls. How dreadful if you needed to sell a few things, but couldn't take cash and had to set up an online payment system just to get rid of your old sofa! Cash will always exist because it is so convenient.

You knew you lost the argument as soon as you went Godwin in the title, right?

The website closed down several months ago when the courts appointed an administrator... Pretty much the whole crypto world knew about it (apart from you apparently! 

Uh-huh - but you've only just noticed their website is offline? You are a font of wisdom this morning.

Again - what reports?

Produce something specific. I know this forum hates them because they advocate a blocksize increase, but trying to spread FUD about their business without any proof is a bit low...