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How Coinbase trended on Hacker News

Coinbase was mentioned 18,795 times on Hacker News between 2011 and 2026, peaking in Nov 2017 with 715 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often Coinbase appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Total mentions
18,795
Peak month
Nov 2017 (715)
First seen
2011
2008201120142017202020232026

What the chart shows

Coinbase first appears in 2011 and totals 18,675 lifetime mentions. The curve peaks in November 2017 with 715 mentions, during that year’s crypto run-up.

Discussion spans business and engineering: its DPO debut, an 18% layoff announcement, a warning that bankruptcy could wipe out user funds, reports of selling geolocation data to ICE, and an engineering post on why Kubernetes isn’t in its stack. The term remained active through 2026.

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