But information that IS insider information is without question illegal to trade on.
It's pretty interesting how the opinions on insider information are pretty far apart from each other.
In the crypto world there are loads of people trying to justify the use (abuse) of insider information, while there is nothing about it to justify. It's illegal by itself and unethical in every possible way.
Roger Ver seems to be on that side as well, which might explain the crazy price explosion of bcash just before Coinbase announced that they will be listing it. Coinbase CEO is pretty close with Roger Ver as well.
We'll probably not hear much from it again with how Coinbase and Roger can just keep their mouth shut, unless something happens and they start to blackmail each other. We'll see where it ends.