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coinbase vs binance on Hacker News

Across 2007–2026 of Hacker News, coinbase leads coinbase vs binance with 18,675 mentions to binance’s 4,852, peaking in Nov 2017.

Mention-over-time for coinbase vs binance, overlaid across 2007–2026 of Hacker News. Each line is a live date-histogram over ~45M posts and comments, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

coinbase18,675 mentions, peak Nov 2017binance4,852 mentions, peak Oct 2022
2008201120142017202020232026
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How the lead changed hands

Crypto-exchange lead-swap: Coinbase is the exchange people talk about through 2013–21, then Binance takes over the headlines in 2022–23.

The stories behind each line

Top “coinbase” stories
  1. Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs 778 points · 2022
  2. Container technologies at Coinbase: Why Kubernetes is not part of our stack 778 points · 2020
  3. Coinbase is reportedly selling geolocation data to ICE 769 points · 2022
  4. Coinbase from YC to DPO 714 points · 2021
Top “binance” stories
  1. Trump pardons convicted Binance founder 1,055 points · 2025
  2. Binance to acquire FTX 740 points · 2022
  3. Temporary pause of Bitcoin withdrawals on Binance 539 points · 2022
  4. I watched a friend of mine pump a shitcoin on Binance by buying billboards 436 points · 2022

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