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Their entire business is around the facilitation of illegal gambling, large scale fraud, tax evasion, money laundering, terrorist financing, and drug trafficking, with a tiny percentage of semi-legitimate users. Their founders have consistently behave like narcissist, who are always the victim in every situation and believe the rules shouldn’t apply to them.

It would be shocking if they weren’t always disgracing themselves



I saw an ad[0] recently and was in disbelief it was an actual, official Coinbase ad. It’s making fun of the lower class and deprived areas of the UK with the implication people should gamble away their money on crypto in hopes of a better life.

[0]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l0bmJlrhRg4


I've seen this around, they're pretty damn gross, and far too political for commercial advertising in the UK IMO.




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