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The two questions that immediately jumped to my mind on this are

1) does Coinbase's user base skew more towards Firefox than the average, possibly because of perceived better security/privacy and a desire for that among cryptocurrency users?

2) did the zeroday impact Tor browser users, and does Coinbase have a lot of those?

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I don't think Coinbase users are looking for security/privacy. To be specific, Coinbase is considered a novice cryptocurrency user platform since they have some relatively hefty fees in exchange for being simple to use AKA "It's for normies".

The original spearphishing targeted Coinbase employees, not their users. It seems once that failed, the people behind this cast a wider net.

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