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Here's the un-editorialized full text from their SEC filing:

> Moreover, because custodially held crypto assets may be considered to be the property of a bankruptcy estate, in the event of a bankruptcy, the crypto assets we hold in custody on behalf of our customers could be subject to bankruptcy proceedings and such customers could be treated as our general unsecured creditors. This may result in customers finding our custodial services more risky and less attractive and any failure to increase our customer base, discontinuation or reduction in use of our platform and products by existing customers as a result could adversely impact our business, operating results, and financial condition.

> Further, we place great importance on safeguarding crypto assets we custody and keeping them bankruptcy remote from our general creditors, and in June 2022 we updated our Retail User Agreement to clarify the applicability of UCC Article 8 to custodied crypto asset — the same legal protection that our institutional custody and prime broker clients also rely upon. UCC Article 8 provides that financial assets held by Coinbase are not property of Coinbase and not subject to the claims of its general creditors. In light of UCC Article 8, we believe that a court would not treat custodied crypto assets as part of our general estate; however, due to the novelty of crypto assets, courts have not yet considered this type of treatment for custodied crypto assets

Source: page 96: https://s27.q4cdn.com/397450999/files/doc_financials/2022/q3...



You call it uneditorialized, but it is simply editorialized in a different direction.


Everything is literally editorialized (first by your brain, then by institutions). A charitable interpretation of the parent comment is that it is not editorialized relative to the original source.


I fail to see what this contributes.


I'll expand: it is in the interest of the writer of this "uneditorialized" document to downplay the risk.




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