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by ac29 1156 days ago
> cause I'm getting downvotes. See below. The point that I'm making is that if this company is acting illegally, then why is it still trading?

Is your position that no publicly traded company has ever done anything illegal?

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Not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying that a publicly traded company went through all of the due diligence that it takes to become a publicly traded company (if you've ever been through that, it is pretty intense) and then asked for further clarification on their existing practices, couldn't get that, then got served a wells notice and is now having to go to court to get further clarification. All because the SEC can't or won't give clear guidance on things that they are supposed to be in charge of.
> asked for further clarification on their existing practices, couldn't get that,

That's not right. They got clarification they just didn't like the answer.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/coinbase-says-just-no-way-to-...

"When we ask specific questions: How do we get to a path to registration? There's never an answer," Shirzad said.

I asked the DEA how to get a path to register to be able to sell fentanyl to anyone, they didn't have any answer so I just opened up shop.
Terrible analogy. fentanyl requires a prescription to get access to it. There are well defined processes for this.

Until the SEC defines what sort of requirements there are to purchase crypto (like the FDA has [0]), coinbase isn't doing anything illegal by selling it.

[0] https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2019/01...

There are well-defined processes for selling unregistered securities.

Either get them registered, or don't sell them.

Bad analogy because Coinbase isn't you. Coinbase is a licensed securities dealer. So that would be more like a licensed drug distributor asking the DEA how to get a license to distribute fentanyl to hospitals. And the DEA would happily answer them.