BTC NEWS: Coinbase Has Frozen $ 40,000 In Donations In Favor Of Ross Ulbricht
Coinbase disconnected the wallet used by the initiative group acting in the interests of protecting the creator of Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht.
According to Free Ross and other sources, the purse used to pay lawyers was frozen after receiving a payment of 16.5 BTC (US $ 40,200) on Thursday.
After the information about this event leaked to the network, members of the bitco-community promptly offered help to the group, and John Love from Abra, after talking to Free Ross, undertook to resolve the situation.
Actions Coinbase members of the group called "dishonest game". Veteran bitlocker Brian Hoffmann drew the community's attention to the fact that the exchange recently appointed federal prosecutor Kathryn Haun to its board of directors.
Haun took part in the case involving the participation of corrupt agents of secret services in machinations with bitkoyn, but had nothing to do with Ulbricht's case and did not participate in the conviction. Therefore, the respondents called Huffman's hint "extremely erroneous."
At the same time, Coinbase was faced with problems on several fronts, and a significant part of the user base of the exchange recoiled from it after large-scale failures that occurred in recent weeks. Because of the failures and slowing of transactions, many traders failed to take advantage of market price fluctuations and remained extremely unhappy.
Free Ross subsequently confirmed receipt of an additional donation for a total of 4 BTC ($ 9,750).
