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Some Bitcoiners don't like Coinbase's know-your-customer measures for anti money-laundering. Reddit's /r/bitcoin has had reports of people being suprised about what documentation they have to provide; or having their accounts shut down because they withdrew their bitcoins to an address Coinbase determined was connected to something shady, or put a joking reference to drugs in their transaction memo field.


But that's entirely because they have to comply with federal law, not because they're "anti-privacy".


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Not much IMO, but I said it because it's probably why this writer (an apparent cryptocurrency enthusiast) calls Coinbase an "anti-privacy company".




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