🧵 Quick thread going through $COIN's ludicrous "legal arguments" about why a product called #CoinbaseEarn:

1. is not an investment
2. has no expectation of profit
3. is not a communal activity
4. does not depend on the actions of @coinbase
1. "not an investment"

According to Coinbase there is no way for users to lose their ethereum even if

1. @coinbase gets hacked (user keys gets compromised, etc)
2. there's a bug in the ethereum source code (are lawyers even allowed to comment on this?) Image
2. "not a common enterprise"

Here #Coinbase admits that there is a gathering together of assets, then makes up some nonsense about how bc you can sell them it doesn't count (nvm that the same is true for stocks), then pretends users won't lose if Coinbase makes a mistake (lies). Image
3. "no reasonable expectation of profit"

bro It's called #CoinbaseEarn. This argument is so disingenuous I'm not even going to bother disproving it. Image
4. "not dependent on efforts of other"

So you're saying that if Coinbase's servers stopped working tomorrow people would still get paid their "service fees"? Image
I'll take this chance to remind you that Coinbase's crack legal team of utterly depraved worshippers of Mammon recently got KOed by an appellate court for 'unconscionable legal gimmicks'.

right now (literally today) they're trying again at SCOTUS.

ngmi
🧵 And I'll also take this chance to point out that #Coinbase's Chief Legal Officer, @iampaulgrewal, has sold over $19 million worth of $COIN stock just in the first 2.7 months of 2023. (h/t @Bitfinexed)

"Disingenuous" is just the beginning...

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Mar 20
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@Coinbase's bank is being sued for predatory lending in a large class action lawsuit filed ~8 weeks ago.

It gets worse though... Because @CrossRiverBank is also starting to have to sue people for loans that are going bad. Financials only allow 1.6% loss. $COIN

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@coinbase @crossriverbank 🧵2/Ω Kinda f'ed up other thread so I'm gonna copy these over here. tl;dr #seemsbad for @CrossRiverBank and $COIN.
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at least a $3 million loss. @NotChaseColeman
@NotChaseColeman oh Scott, your 500,000 shares of $SBNY were an equity allocation of infinite jest.

➤ worth over $150 million at all time high...
➤ $77 million on February 1st...
➤ $50 million on March 9th...

...and now it's a $0.
@NotChaseColeman whoops I read that wrong, I guess the noted theologian only lost $414,000 on the final morning.

gg scott!
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Here's @CrossRiverBank's details over at #FDIC. Various addresses, FDIC ID numbers, charter info, etc. in case anyone's looking to dig around.

Note that for their first 5 years they were rated "Needs to improve" as a bank.

#lolbank
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@crossriverbank 🧵 Who else didn't know that @CrossRiverBank changed its name from #FirstFinancialBank in 2008?
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Reminder this is the most important crypto bank in America. It's @Coinbase and @Circle's bank, among others.
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@crossriverbank @coinbase @circle 🧵2/Ω
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Sounds like (extremely) willful negligence. @oooitscrime
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Also @coinbase's preferred bank.
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The moment you've been waiting for.

The first time it comes out on the floor of the Congress that we just bailed out a bunch of Chinese tech millionaires with links to the PRC at American citizens' expense...

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Trust me when I say you're gonna hear a lot about this for the next forever.
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Dems: "YOU ROLLED BACK REGULATIONS!"
Repubs: "YOU BAILED OUT COMMUNIST CHINAMEN!"

ad infinitum.

Here are some very wise words from the very wise wizard Chanos 👇
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