Does coinbase have control of your coinbase android wallet?

[adzino]

I tried to send bitcoin through coinbase.com and they would not allow the transfer to an online news agency bitcoin address.

About a week or so later I got an Email and Coinbase made me fill out a form about why I was trying to send bitcoin to this address. It was for $5 dollars worth.

I later learned that this news agency was sanctioned by USA and it was under Russian disinformation website. I had no idea as I thought it was just a news website that offered an alternative perspective than what the USA media is telling us about the war. I mean who would have thought the USA government would sanction news right?


Coinbase made me fill out a bunch of questions about why I was sending $5 bitcoin here, even though it never got sent. They asked the reasons and how I was affiliated with this organization. They said it was their due diligence or something, even though the bitcoin never got sent on coinbase.com

Kind of pissed they made me fill this out and I had no choice because they threatened to ban my account.

I did actually send bitcoin to this Russian organization with my mobile coinbase wallet as they did not block me sending bitcoin to this bitcoin address with the mobile wallet.

My question is, does coinbase know and keep track of who I am sending bitcoin to with the mobile coinbase wallet? Should I consider another wallet?

Thanks

If you sent coins from the coinbase.com webwallet (which is the exchange wallet), then yes they know where you are sending your coins, they know how you are spending it, they can freeze your funds whenever they want, they can ask you question, they own your coins not you. It is true for all custodial wallets.

If are saying that you were able to send your funds from the android coinbase wallet, I am guessing it was a noncustodial wallet where you own the private keys hence they don't know or don't care how you spend your funds. Did you have to create an account with email address and password when trying to use the android wallet. Were you provided with the backup phrase?

[hosseinimr93]

So far, I didn't notice anything that someone have access to the wallet or a transaction happen without my knowledge.

This doesn't mean trustwallet is secure. Everything can happen in the future.

If are saying that you were able to send your funds from the android coinbase wallet, I am guessing it was a noncustodial wallet where you own the private keys hence they don't know or don't care how you spend your funds.

There's still the probability that they track your transactions even if you use their non-custodial wallet.
They can link your transactions and your addresses with your IP address.

[nakamura12]

So far, I didn't notice anything that someone have access to the wallet or a transaction happen without my knowledge.

This doesn't mean trustwallet is secure. Everything can happen in the future.

I didn't mean to make them think that way where Trustwallet is safe. I am just sharing the things that I have experienced when I used Trustwallet and I also mentioned that I only use it to receive and send right away and not for storing cryptocurrency. I am fully aware of Trustwallet being a close source wallet. As you have known, we don't know who might know about the seed phrase of wallets made in that wallet provider. I also understand that there might happen in the future and within 4 years of using it, no problems yet.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

My question is, does coinbase know and keep track of who I am sending bitcoin to with the mobile coinbase wallet? Should I consider another wallet?
Thanks

If the coinbase wallet is non-custodial,  then it simply means that they should have no knowledge or track of where or who your are sending bitcoins to... But to be on the safer side,  I will also advice that you leave coinbase wallet alone,  get yourself a hardware wallet,  if you cannot afford a hardware wallet right now, then you can go for desktop wallets like Wasabi,  or go for electrum,  mycelium wallets for mobile devices,  all this wallets are good non-custodial open source wallets,  they are pretty secure and very safe to use,  but not as safe as hardware wallet,  hardware wallets are currently the best.