It's customers/users fault, because they've been told to move their bitcoin out of coinbase, and coinbase has sent an email to notify everyone who has an account. And it's clear statement from them, long before bcash split happen.
If you wish to have access to both BTC and BCC, please be sure to send your BTC off the platform by July 31.
Don't care about legal scholar who analogized the situation to a brokerage firm not giving stock splits to their customers.
It's entirely different if you have been warned.
They have been warned days prior to the fork. And now they are complaining? They should have moved their coins to a exchange that put noticed to support BCC/BCH. Exchanges are un-regulated, so I don't think Coinbase is at fault at this.
It still doesn't seem like a very good move on Coinbase's part. Where is (was) the logic in not supporting BTC? It just seems way lame now & not a good way to keep customers
Im going to assume you mean BCH not BTC. The logic in it is that Coinbase and many other exchanges stated their positions on it. They do not support it as in they don't not believe in values or goal BCH is trying to achieve, and they voice their opinions by not putting it their exchanges.
The situation would be completely different if it were just another Altcoin or ICO, but it isnt. It's a direct fork off of the Bitcoin chain in an attempt to become the new BTC.
Exactly. The stands is that it doesn't have the support of the majority, which is true by the way. And they would rather stick to bitcoin which is very clear from the beginning. Coinbase decided not to back bitcoin cash because "it is hard to predict how long the alternative version of bitcoin will survive."