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Despite the industry’s insistence on treating Coinbase like the ‘golden standard’ of cryptocurrency exchanges, the exchange has been implicated or outright exposed for their involvement in numerous questionable and/or criminal activities in the blockchain space since their inception.

1. In 2015, it was revealed that Coinbase had lied about its regulatory status - https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Bitcoin-exchange-claims-it-is-regulated-but-6043584.php

2. On July 18th, 2018, Coinbase published an announcement informing the cryptocurrency space that it had **lied about receiving regulatory approval from the U.S. government to "list coins considered securities" - https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-retracts-announcement-of-regulatory-approval-to-list-coins-considered-securities

3. On June 20th, 2018, Mashable published a bombshell article revealing that scores of complaints had been filed against Coinbase at the SEC and other government agencies alleging fraud, negligent practice, and other general malfeasance - https://mashable.com/article/sec-coinbase-complaints-fraud/#u2K.mnDD3iqU

4. On July 2nd, 2018, it was revealed that Coinbase's broker had been censured and fined by the SEC for lying to their investors and the general public about their use of customer funds - https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-45

5. In June 2016, a bombshell Reddit post exposed numerous half-truths and opaque background associations related to Coinbase and Circle - https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4md665/coinbase_may_have_lied_about_the_number_of/