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by nostrademons 2503 days ago
Much of this is because of forks - since they offered Bitcoin before the BCH fork (and presumably ETH before the ETC fork), all of their customers who owned one of these before the fork also own the new currency. So they have to support custody for the currencies anyway (unless they want to deal with angry customers saying "What happened to my BCH! Rightfully I own it"), and if they don't support trading they'll get angry customers that say "Why can't I sell my BCH?!?". (This is aggravated by potentially needing to send that BCH off to another exchange, potentially not in the U.S, with worse regulatory compliance, in order to sell.) So most of the work needed to support it has to be done anyway to remain in legal compliance, and it's a small amount of additional work for a large benefit to support trading.
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That doesn't explain the favoritism for BCH over the multitude of other forks (some worth $50-$100 per token) though. Why no Bitcoin Gold listing?
Sure enough, there are angry customers accusing Coinbase of stealing their Bitcoin Gold:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/comments/7jtlgz/coinbase_s...

IIRC BCH and ETC forked before BTG. They probably did two of them and then asked themselves "Why are we doing this again?"