That is a good and recent link, even though the picture contains a 2019 date, the article is from yesterday (March 19). 

Many of us have love hate relations with Coinbase and part of those love hate feelings seem to relate to some of the underlying shenanigans that were the basis of the CFTC investigation that resulted in the $6.5 million settlement.

Surely some of Coinbase's egregiousness was felt by members here. 

Personally, just from overall personal experience memory, I recall some kind of situation in late 2017 in which Coinbase started out in late July 2017, by saying that it was not going to recognize the August 2017 bcash fork, so if its customers wanted to get their bcash forked coins, they needed to withdraw before the anticipated August 1 forkening.  Then later, like around the time that the segwit2x shenanigans failed, Coinbase said that they were going to give the bcash coins to its account holders on January 1, 2018 or soon thereafter due to tax considerations or some other bullshit  blah blah blah.  And, then right around the December 2017 bitcoin peak, maybe it was like December 17 or within some days of that, all of a sudden, Coinbase announced that they were going to give the bcash coins to their account holders in accordance with how many BTC that they had on the Coinbase exchange on august 1 and also to allow for trading of those bcash.  Trading then opened up within a few days or something like that (very short notice), then trading got stuck (supposedly), and the bcash price got stuck on their platform at some stupid ass ridiculous price of $9k+ while bitcoin was trading around $14k-ish and bcash was gravitating upwards on other exchanges from $2k-ish to even $4k-ish or whatever.

I recall personally wanting to get rid of the bcash that I had been then issued in my coinbase account as quickly as I could.. and I set up orders to attempt to achieve sales of my bcash that I had on their exchange at sporadic times that trading was being allowed.

What a bunch of fucking bullshit in terms of Coinbase's behaviors, and surely we can understand that sometimes governmental agencies are quite reluctant to find intentionality or even to be able to feel that they are able to bargain a settlement agreement that gets prosecuted companies to agree that they were intentional in their shenanigans.. Yet many of us who actually watched or had personal experiences in connection with Coinbase's then behaviors can surely recognize that their behavior adds up to intentional shenanigans and manipulation rather than honest behaviors, and many of us would not even have access to some of the information that likely even show more and worse shenanigans and manipulation than we had been able to see, such as likely insider trading that was also going on.. so whatever, I am not going to really get caught up on any of this psychologically, even though I can attempt to appreciate some of the history of the matter.... even though with the passage of time some of the details might get forgotten, too.. by yours truly and others who witnessed the matter from their own situations.


We (royal we, of course) need proof of work.


You fuck.  #nohomo


For some strange reason, I have been using Apple products for about 30 years and getting quite a bit of pleasure from them, even though I do happen to understand as well, that over the years, some peeps have been repelled by Apple's practice of employing closed source systems over the years.