I chatted with them for 3 hours. The agents didn't understand the issue. It was really clear they don't actually know how crypto or even Coinbase works.
This is not a case where the money is lost. They actually have the money, and are refusing to return it, while saying "transactions are irreversible." Yes, so create a NEW transaction to return the money. I told them this and they refused.
If you mail cash or other valuables to the wrong address by mistake, there's actually legal precedent that the receiver has to return it. So I think it would be possible to sue Coinbase and win. It's basically theft.
Probably, it wouldn’t be difficult to deal with this through small claims, but maybe try writing legal@coinbase or have an attorney send a letter. How much did you send?
@alex LMAO its like if you accidentally sent money to the wrong bank but you know the time and date of the transaction AND the serial numbers for the specific bills you sent them.
I thought might be the same reasoning @p makes DMs sent to/from FSE public. "They shouldn't expect anything different to happen", "Security based on goodwill is not security", etc. But in this case, as you pointed out, its not goodwill but the law. Come to think of it though, its probably illegal in p's case too. Aren't there laws about protecting user privacy in the US? (HIPAA?).
@alex honestly you know the customer service folks don't know shit about crypto they're probably getting paid minimum wage and that shit paycheck is the only thing between them and eating a barrel
100%. Customer support for a crypto exchange is tricky, because if they actually knew enough to be helpful they could just be developing crypto for a higher salary. But they also need to provide legit technical customer support in some cases. So maybe just escalate the issue to a department that can help? No such thing seems to exist on Coinbase.
@alex My brother sent a whole bunch of #Chiliz to his #Coinbase account when they didn't support that token - and he had no way to access them until Coinbase decided to support that token in his region. ?
I’d start by writing their legal department and escalate from there. They probably wouldn’t show up to a small claims case over $500, but then you’d have to sort out enforcing the default judgement.
I had $300 of USDC just disappear from my account. No record of it leaving my account. Took 8 days to get it back... On the 7th consecutive day of messaging them and them running me around in circles they nuked my login and emailed me that any attempt to message them would lock my account for longer. After getting access again the funds were returned with no record of it leaving or being put back. They are a nightmare if you have an issue.
100%. The way to achieve that is by using crypto like an actual currency instead of an investment. If that happens, crypto centralized exchanges will become less relevant.
@alex@Hyolobrika Maybe a moderate amount of shame would improve your work, or at minimum it would hopefully get you to stop claiming that Leo Radvinsky personally demanded you be banned from a git repository in order to keep you from merging patches that would expose his secret child trafficking ring.
yeah you're probably gonna have to escalate, rank-and-file coinbase CS reps only really have the ability to help with things like ERC-20 tokens sent to wrong ERC-20 wallet addresses, not so much access to the custodial wallets (for obvious reasons)
the reason they're not understanding is because they more often get the "i sent bitcoin to the eth wallet lol can u help" question and their preprogrammed answer is better equipped to address that question, which is not the same as your question
I'm perfectly calm, but I can't help noticing that you have repeatedly attempted to torpedo Pleroma while slandering the good people whose code you took--code you could not have written--and I won't re-read the list of all of the other problems you've created or been adjacent to, not just problems for me but problems for fedi. It's impossible to attribute to incompetence at this point, and that just leaves the one other option. Don't address me as "bro" as long as you are actively hostile to the network you are exploiting, the people on it, and the people that built it.
It sure seems that way. What's weird is that I featured FSE on https://jointhefedi.com, donated to Revolver, and overall supported p and his efforts. Now he's white knighting for a porn CEO because I wrote an article about how I got cancelled by Pleroma. You'd think "Free Speech Extremist" would understand Cancel Culture, but he is starting to look more like a tranny himself.
@p@Hyolobrika@alex are you really talking about Alex being hostile to the network because he brings in things people dont always like when you literally spam the shit out of peoples blockbots?
I don’t have the same hopeful (and perhaps naive) perspective of p (and other admins you associate with) that you do, but his hatred for you seems completely irrational and ridiculous.
I think p basically represents “oldfags”, people that don’t want things to change or improve. I think he’s said, verbatim, that you’re destroying fedi by adding quote posts (lol). He deliberately goes out of his way to remove features to make it as unfriendly and autistic as possible so “normies” are put off. I think it’s good that you’re doing the opposite.
I won’t even go into p’s “free speech” policies because that would be a whole thing. (p.s. no google results allowed on “free speech extremist”).
@alex@gleasonator.com Honestly, the entire crypto industry has always come off as totally scummy, scammy, and grifty to me. I have never had good vibes from anything crypto-related.
> because he brings in things people dont always like
You've got tunnel vision if you can't read the post and tell that this has nothing to do with that. The specific issue mentioned is that he deliberately antagonized and slandered the people whose code he plastered his name all over, and you can go see the things I took issue with.
> when you literally spam the shit out of peoples blockbots?
I'd do it again in a minute, it is hilarious every time. It's got nothing to do with this, though, unless you're deliberately trying to ignore the issue.
@p@Hyolobrika@alex The majority of his "slandering" was just being an asshat. I don't care about that, my point is that you contracted yourself about being hostile and exploiting the network. Yeah abloo abloo he doesn't like people that tried to shut him out because le trans bad or whatever, but
> as long as you are actively hostile to the network you are exploiting, the people on it, and the people that built it.
in this statement, you contradict yourself by "exploting the network". Perhaps, what he finds hilarious (being rude and slandering people verbally) is no different from what you find hilarious (spamming people's bots and instances and exploiting federation because you dont like something)
I don't like all things Alex does, I don't like all things you do. That does not mean I am against said people or actively against them, I hold my biases for a greater good. But most importantly, I greatly wish all you faggots would get along instead of causing stupid slap fights on the network. This has gone on for so very long that I just started losing hope for the projects that float and started my own shit. Rolling my own Frontend, initially, and now trying to roll out a simple backend, and started maintaining KDE projects which involve Microblogging because I really like this infrastructure but all the code is absolute dogshit.
most people here too busy eating the goyslop and complaining instead of actually doing anything (and/or too busy or unmotivated to care) so watching the only people who seem to want to put effort into the network fight over who's dick is bigger for the 999th time gets the seriousposting out of me.
when you put :marseytransflag2:'s, terfs, and schizophrenic oldfags into the same arena things just aren't bound to go very well, at all.
What's so great about these posts is you're just sharing screenshots of when I said things that are hilarious and true, and I stand by every one of them. Thanks for the free exposure! ?
You jumped in to argue about blockbots, I said I wasn't talking about that, you persisted. You think it's got something to do with blockbots, apparently. Fine, you're not paying attention.
Gleason's a piece of shit, he's done more harm than good from the beginning, he's gotten progressively worse in the last year, and he'll hear it every time he addresses me. gleason_is_a_clown.png
@marine@MK2boogaloo@Hyolobrika@PonyPanda@Zerglingman@alex@ne I'm not sure what the question is and I told neko that dragging this into blockbots was a dumbass move but every time you tell neko something is a dumbass move, he just does it anyway.
@p Alex implemented good features which makes him a benefit pretty much by definition. How many good features have you implemented for Pleroma and any of its forks?
You can't yell at people over making bad changes when you barely do shit in the first place :champ: ? Looks like alex is the obvious winner here.
(also, X user contributing more is yet again, a gay dickriding contest. Point proven correctly.)
Gitlab seems to hide blocked users from commit search... so anyway
<<<<< PETE >>>>> Pete (1): Add index hotspots
<<<<< ALEX >>>>> Alex Gleason (438): Expand MRF SimplePolicy docs Always accept deletions through SimplePolicy Add :reject_deletes option to SimplePolicy Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/develop' into accept-deletes Let blob: pass CSP Let blob: pass CSP Upgrade Comeonin to v5 https://github.com/riverrun/comeonin/blob/master/UPGRADE_v5.md Handle bcrypt passwords for Mastodon migration
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If you're gonna start a pissing contest, at least be a real contributor...... :umishame2:
@NEETzsche@Hyolobrika@MK2boogaloo@PonyPanda@Zerglingman@alex@marine@ne "Implemented features" is oddly narrow, and restricting it just to Pleroma is more narrow. If you are running recent Soapbox (31f5bafe is recent enough), then my code is on your machine. (Given your dayjob, some small amount of code I wrote for other projects is on every machine you use for development and every machine you deploy to, in fact.) I don't believe I'm running any of your code.