[chandraonline]

> However, with Coinbase, there is a need for other people to be able to recognize who they are doing a transaction with

Why is this? They are not receiving money , they are sending money. The recipient needs to know the sender but why does the sender need to know that the recipient is a registered coinbase user or what their firstname and lastname is. Why does the response json of the request_money api need to return the user's name and couldn't the email and the transaction history page be the same when you send money to a registered or non-registered email until the recipient is in some sort of address book of the sender (perhaps after a valid transaction has happened between them). I have used chase and paypal and in both cases either I have to add the recipient to the address book and fill out the email address and first and last names or just use the email address.

Fortunately or unfortunately when you play in the financial services, you are held to a higher security standard. I really like coinbase, I hope they fix this simple problem and move on instead of denying its a problem.