Ultimately, as they grew and got under the thumb of the USD banksters (or simply showed their true colors as the case may be) they became useless to me.
I'm not sure if Coinbase is more under the thumb of the
big banks or the government--it's hard to tell, ...
In my analysis there is not a lot of difference between 'big banks' and 'government'. 'government' is, for all intents and purposes, the arm by which the financial powers exert their wills.