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I got banned from Coinbase years ago because they think I'm a decade younger than I actually and because they don't serve minors. But I was 18+ before Coinbase existed. If memory serves, I got banned after they first implemented identity verification, or at least a form of it that required me to upload a photo of my ID, which I did. They must have misread the birthyear on the ID but I don't understand how that's possible since the mistake would require replacing 19xx with 20xx. A handful of support tickets never got anywhere. I had already bought and sold hundreds of dollars worth of crypto at that point, linked a bank account, etc.

I had already exited crypto at that point so it didn't really matter to me, so I let it be. I thought it was amusing at that point, because of where crypto appeared to be headed.

I've always thought poorly of Coinbase since then.




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