This is sort of a question independent of that. The enthusiastic praise reeks of a potential conflict and I was hoping someone might have dug into it already.

This is sort of a question independent of that. The enthusiastic praise reeks of a potential conflict and I was hoping someone might have dug into it already. And Coinbase is far from spotless. They have a track record of doing sh*tty things to their customers that you can piece together with a simple HN search. They might be the least bad option, but that truth is not nearly as ringing an endorsement as the content of the linked article.