Shame, this could've been interesting, but instead reads like a marketing pitch.<p>Of course, I probably shouldn't be surprised. ZapChain is, themselves, a company delivering services for the bitcoin community, so they are incentivized to put a positive spin on any major players in the space (since any good bitcoin press is good for them) in order to make the whole market look more mature and vibrant.<p>Gotta shake off the Mt. Gox stink somehow... :)
From the article: <i>"The information in this post was collected exclusively from the bitcoin community on ZapChain, and Nick Tomaino from Coinbase."</i><p>The article would be a lot better if they'd been to Coinbase's HQ. If they can find it. The Market St. address in San Francisco is a mail drop for a service that opens paper mail, scans it, and emails it. The Bluxome St. address is someone's condo.
> Nick Tomaino, who dropped out of Yale to join Coinbase, was awesome enough to set aside an entire day to answer our questions.<p>So drop out of Yale to do business development at Coinbase? Miss the chance to forge strong personal relationships which could last for decades? Relinquish the opportunity to learn and research for 3-4 years and instead "hustle" with the risk of being pink-slipped every Monday morning? Perhaps the right decision for Nick but I would personally have stayed at Yale.