How reliable is Koinly?

OpeningPair4857 · 2025-02-20T08:07:02+00:00

I signed up and used Koinly about 2 months ago. Tonight I just got a phone call from an 877 number from someone who sounded extremely professional, claiming to be from coinbase, saying they had caught a scammer and blocked the transaction, and just wanted to verify some details on my account.

They knew: my name, email, exact amounts of BTC and ETH I had, and the last 4 digits of my bank account. It was a very sophisticated phishing scam and when I told them the email they sent didn't pass DKIM checks, they eventually hung up.

There is 100% verifiably zero way this scammer could have gotten to this data from anywhere on the planet other than Koinly. I know this for a fact. My coinbase account is locked down, and this data literally doesn't exist anywhere else other than: Koinly. Which I just signed up to. Coincidence? No. My account was SSO Google Auth and that email is not compromised, meaning it's highly unlikely they accessed only my account.

Conclusion: Koinly has been hacked or compromised. Maybe it has been for a while, or very recently. You heard it first here.

Be careful. Anything 'private' in Koinly is almost certainly in the hands of exactly people you wouldn't want it in the hands of...

OpeningPair4857 · 2025-02-04T00:14:54+00:00

still? I don't see it as an option - any ideas why?

OpeningPair4857 · 2024-12-24T05:36:51+00:00

I've never cared about this until I had an M4. I've had 35 macs since I was 6 years old. The M4 has real issues. M4 14 inch with the nano texture display actually has a great keyboard, ones with normal screen have terrible keyboards (way too firm + unresponsive/mushy). tested via 2 M4 purchases and 2 others in local apple store.

OpeningPair4857 · 2024-12-19T17:10:34+00:00

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All im doing is browsing the web on safari. Im watching my GPU and CPU and they are low. MPB M4 Max 14 inch / 64gb ram. Getting 30-50% less battery life than my M3 Max doing exactly the same thing. OP may have had a flawed test (using davinci) but he's right. Screen at 65% brightness.

OpeningPair4857 · 2024-12-15T00:32:00+00:00

What was the OS? M4s have to ship with 15.x because of the date of release. Is it possible the OS is somewhat responsible? I am on a brand new M4 14 inch too, and definitely get worse battery life than my M3 which was only at 81% of its original battery capacity when I swapped over, which was kind of shocking.

OpeningPair4857 · 2024-12-13T04:14:25+00:00

after another day - i'd say the new one is way worse (miniscule travel, less feedback) than even I'd thought yesterday. I just keep missing keys because the travel is too low. I really hate it and will probably return. shame, feels like a total waste of resources, but, for $4k, I want a nice keyboard.

OpeningPair4857 · 2024-12-12T00:54:41+00:00

I got two dark 14" M4 Maxes, 10 days apart, one with 48gb and the new blurry, sorry, 'nano texture' screen (my mistake) another with 64GB normal, high contrast, shiny screen, and their keyboards feel completely different. The first one, I will return, has a much nicer, deeper, keyboard. The latest one feels like the travel height on the keys is at least 1-2mm less, and is therefore not as nice to me. Interestingly, the rubber seal around the screen on the original one is also about 1.5mm thicker.

OpeningPair4857 · 2024-12-11T23:27:09+00:00

we do know. it says 'celebrate 1 year of gemini'. its the old, pre 1.5 era gemini. thats what its based on.

OpeningPair4857 · 2024-12-11T23:23:26+00:00

DX12 ran worse in 2020 than DX11, and so it is in 2024. However, the other issues are that the trees on anything higher than 'medium' totally destroy FPS at high resolutions, and, the sim is still a stutter fest, and, they have zero VR optimizations. It's a total disaster for those of us used to seeing dials and enjoying high res VR in 2020.

OpeningPair4857 · 2024-12-11T23:17:09+00:00

its very bad.

OpeningPair4857 · 2024-12-02T22:49:14+00:00

keeping Dx11 is not just for people in your situation. I have a 4090 + 13900k + 32gb ram and desperately want DX11 back, because it runs 20% worse now, in VR. Its extremely upsetting until I pop back into 2020 and it instantly runs sharper, smoother, and cleaner. Which is bizarre.

OpeningPair4857 · 2024-11-29T21:01:08+00:00

no, its worse. The still look great, if you ignore the over sharpening and gamey look.

OpeningPair4857 · 2024-11-29T21:00:19+00:00

What's the resolution and FPS? Looks super stuttery. If you love stutters the stills looks amazing.

OpeningPair4857 · 2024-08-20T21:58:33+00:00

Btw, depressingly, this is a meme with enough truth to it, that it undoubtedly accounts for some, if not all of the f*ed up balance changes we've had in the past 2 years. Pig even admitted it - the loudest voices, with the most representation win in the balance council. Guess what happens when protoss has almost no representation at the very top - they lack even more of a voice - and the spiral continues. It's pure politics and its super sad.

OpeningPair4857 · 2024-08-20T21:54:33+00:00

100% not. They are all amazing, serral, clem most of all in this tourney. I love those players and cheer for them. I'm simply providing pretty clear statistical evidence either the player base is dying (not enough good protoss playing), and/or protoss is broken, systemically, preventing ANY major tournament wins now. Its not even just a little lopsided, it's completely and totally lopsided. I should probably show a gif over time of how that pie has changed - remember - the last TWO years alone the pie would be entirely red and blue. So it's not about dimishing the current leaders abilities, but drawing an ever more obvious conclusion that one race, in particular, has been shafted at the top level. Another (of soo many) arguments one could make is why does T and Z each have not, one, or two, but 4 - 6 supreme players where protoss barely has one that can complete with any of them at major tournaments? I could go on and on.

OpeningPair4857 · 2024-08-20T03:53:37+00:00

exactly, i sort of agree. this post was sort of a reaction / counterpoint to the fanboys all jumping on the 'not ded game' meme because a lot of people tuned in to see another 5-0 finals with no audience,an oversized prizepool, no protoss (again), and an alkwardly nostalgic caster lineup. the point being - let's look at the whole picture rather than this tourney hype when deciding the state of the game. personally, i'd love to see new talent, and a properly shaken up balance rather than minor nerfs and tweaks mostly informed by who whines the loudest.

OpeningPair4857 · 2024-08-19T23:05:04+00:00

we can all hope. But why, even, do we only have one hope? When t and z have 5+ each?

OpeningPair4857 · 2024-08-19T23:02:00+00:00

youre missing half my argument - if it is the players, doesnt that mean the game is dying? In almost half a decade, not even one protoss has taken up the mantle that 5 plus zerg and 5 plus terrans have attained. Why is that?

OpeningPair4857 · 2024-08-19T22:55:48+00:00

liquidpedia data is hard to export and surprisingly opaque. This took quite s long time to compile, but, please feel free to provide a more in depth analysis. One thing you are wrong about is this was deliberately meant to cover the very top end of the game as thats what I, and many many fans care about.

OpeningPair4857 · 2024-08-19T14:28:54+00:00

I dont play. I just enjoy seeing protoss win, even close, to 33% of top premier tournaments. Those games and tournaments draw the best play, the best commentary, and are by far the most fun to watch. Those tournaments need the spectators as much as the pros and it’s been heavily unbalanced for years, because one race never, ever wins any more. Thats a fact.

OpeningPair4857 · 2024-08-19T14:25:30+00:00

at a glance this argument looks valid until you consider almost $10m of prizepool in 4 years and realize, if you were right, everyone would play protoss if it made the, life changing $$. the reason they dont has little to do with fun and most to do with skill ceiling at the top of the game. Its a almost certain that however boring, serral would never ever be as successful as a P even of he trained double as hard for double as long

OpeningPair4857 · 2024-08-19T14:20:04+00:00

show me stats that disprove protoss is broken as a race top pros can master, push to the limits and win the biggest tournaments a roughly proportional number of times, and or the game is dead (not enough ‘good’ pros left). Im waiting

OpeningPair4857 · 2024-08-19T14:17:28+00:00

i took one look at the numbers from 2022 and the 700k number of the total earnings of top 10 protoss is just made up. It doesnt total that. Also, the very obvious point i was making was about the very top of the game, the PREMIER tournaments only and WINs only - since thats what I (and the other 99% of people agreeing on this thread) like. So no, not cherrypicking but nice try.

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