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Re:Lessons from Coinbase’s Wild Ascent by tlb on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @10:19AM (#18185053)
A large class of features are necessary for scaling: those that automate something that previously required a support call. Handling all the KYC verification for every state and country, for example, takes a lot of engineering.
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Re:Lessons from Coinbase’s Wild Ascent by contingencies on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @10:37PM (#18190649)
My impression was most businesses in the space outsource this to specialist providers for legal reasons before and above internal process scaling reasons.
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Re:Lessons from Coinbase’s Wild Ascent by tlb on Thursday October 11, 2018 @11:37AM (#18194373)
Fraud prevention, compliance, and security are the actual hard parts of running a cryptocurrency exchange. Doing these things well has largely determined the winners and losers in the space. I don't know of any major cryptocurrency exchange that outsources them.
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