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Re:Coinbase: The Heart of the Bitcoin Frenzy by ckastner on Thursday December 07, 2017 @03:37AM (#15868580)
How can you automate the checking of an ID?
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Re:Coinbase: The Heart of the Bitcoin Frenzy by mrb on Thursday December 07, 2017 @04:01AM (#15868652)
Third party identity verification services use OCR and machine learning on scanned ID documents.

99% get an automatic Green flag. Only ~1% are manually reviewed.

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Re:Coinbase: The Heart of the Bitcoin Frenzy by ckastner on Thursday December 07, 2017 @04:29AM (#15868742)
Interesting. I'd assume that these methods are probably more effective than a manual review by your average person anyway, but there are certain areas where I would expect automation to be at least frowned upon.
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Re:Coinbase: The Heart of the Bitcoin Frenzy by minikomi on Thursday December 07, 2017 @06:13AM (#15869122) 

    if (Math.random() > 0.2) { // rate of false accounts at last review was ~20% 
      return false;
    } else { 
      return true;
    }
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Re:Coinbase: The Heart of the Bitcoin Frenzy by CoryG89 on Thursday December 07, 2017 @11:08AM (#15871233) 

    return Math.random() <= 0.2
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