I had no idea that things worked this way until I read this thread. It was not clear in the slightest from what the exchanges were saying that the fork would entitle me to another currency.
I transferred things from a private wallet INTO coinbase quite literally on 21:00 on 7/31 because there was absolutely zero indication from them that this was a bad idea - just that they didn't support some new alt coin.
You know what would have been responsible would be to own up and explain it:
"After the fork private wallet holders will have both currencies so you should remove your coins from coinbase before the fork, then put them back in"
Is that bad for business? Yep; too fucking bad. Coinbase holds the forked coins right now - all of them - privately. They just aren't giving them to customers. They're just another crooked exchange.
> If you wish to have access to UAHF coins or you wish to have immediate access to your bitcoin, you should send your bitcoin from Coinbase to your external address by July 31.
I received this from then on the 19th, and again twice more before the fork.
Forgive me but I still have no idea what that means. What's a UAHF coin? Why would I have access to them? How is the process of moving the coins at all related?
The connection between UAHF and bitcoins is not established nor is the entitlement of getting UAHF coins via a bitcoin private wallet.
Given that explanation, I don't know what they are, how to get them, where they come from, how it applies to me or why I should care. It sounds profoundly irrelevant.
Besides, those forked coins still exist, and I know who has them. It's not that they aren't supporting it, they decided to keep them for themselves. All that obtuse language is just legal CYA.
They just did a hustle. A wall-street white-collar style one, but a hustle nonetheless. I'm not getting them no matter what happens because they're probably already sold.
I transferred things from a private wallet INTO coinbase quite literally on 21:00 on 7/31 because there was absolutely zero indication from them that this was a bad idea - just that they didn't support some new alt coin.
You know what would have been responsible would be to own up and explain it:
"After the fork private wallet holders will have both currencies so you should remove your coins from coinbase before the fork, then put them back in"
Is that bad for business? Yep; too fucking bad. Coinbase holds the forked coins right now - all of them - privately. They just aren't giving them to customers. They're just another crooked exchange.