[olalonde]

Probably because government regulations require it. I know it's a requirement for AML/KYC which many of these companies are subject to.

[BoredPositron]

Maybe but why are they still hot?

[threecheese]

They have to be hot, otherwise they couldn’t monetize that data in every other way.

[olalonde]

Hot?

[BoredPositron]

Backblaze has a nice blog post about it.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/whats-the-diff-hot-and-cold-d...