[rocgf]

You are comparing apples and orages.

Coinbase was generous, it could have chosen to give them exactly 0 and that would have been legal.

You're taking the best case scenario in one case and comparing it to the norm in another country.

[daenz]

The person I was replying to was taking the norm in another country and suggesting it is as-good-as-if-not-better than what Coinbase offered.