Coinbase has revealed that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had asked it to stop trading in all cryptocurrencies except Bitcoin before suing the crypto exchange. Thus, Coinbase was forced to move to court to avert possible damage to the industry.
The information was
shared with the Financial Times by Coinbase’s Chief Executive Officer,
Brian Armstrong. The SEC sued Coinbase in June for allegedly failing to
register as an exchange and listing at least 13 cryptocurrencies considered
securities without registering them with the commission.
“We really did not
have a choice at that point because delisting every asset other than Bitcoin