{"id":30226,"date":"2020-10-16T19:35:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T16:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=30226"},"modified":"2025-08-27T21:12:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:12:44","slug":"coinbase-received-about-2000-government-requests-in-six-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/coinbase-received-about-2000-government-requests-in-six-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Coinbase received about 2,000 government requests in six months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The largest American bitcoin exchange Coinbase published its first transparency report. It notes that in the first half of 2020 the company received 1,914 government information requests.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">As part of our commitment to being the most trusted venue to interact with cryptocurrency, we are releasing our first Transparency Report. The report summarizes government requests that we received for customer account info during the first half of 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GCjueNlzZy\">https:\/\/t.co\/GCjueNlzZy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Coinbase (@coinbase) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/coinbase\/status\/1317133202364993539?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Around 90% of requests came from three jurisdictions \u2014 the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_113581\" style=\"width: 1588px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113581\" class=\"wp-image-113581 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-336.png\" alt=\"Coinbase received about 2,000 government requests in six months\" width=\"1578\" height=\"1126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-336.png 1578w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-336-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-336-1024x731.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-336-768x548.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-336-1536x1096.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1578px) 100vw, 1578px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-113581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Coinbase blog.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>American government agencies submitted 1,113 requests, 60% of the total. Of these:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>FBI \u2014 340;<\/li>\n<li>National Security Agency \u2014 184;<\/li>\n<li>local authorities and the Drug Enforcement Administration \u2014 180 and 104 respectively.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_113580\" style=\"width: 1410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113580\" class=\"size-full wp-image-113580\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image2-209.png\" alt=\"Coinbase received about 2,000 government requests in six months\" width=\"1400\" height=\"997\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image2-209.png 1400w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image2-209-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image2-209-1024x729.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image2-209-768x547.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-113580\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Coinbase blog.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Coinbase also said that it regularly receives subpoenas from law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThese requests largely come in the form of subpoenas. They may also include warrants, court orders and other formal procedures,\u201d said the company representatives.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Coinbase emphasised that it would continue to publish such reports in the future, but did not specify how frequently they would be released.<\/p>\n<p>In September, a San Francisco-based digital rights advocacy group (EFF) <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/coinbase-urged-to-publish-greater-transparency-in-its-operations\">urged<\/a> Coinbase to publish transparency reports.<\/p>\n<p>The company should disclose how many government information requests it receives and how it handles them.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s channel on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCC9FnXTC8_ENzaNSO5cHQ6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> YouTube<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The largest U.S. bitcoin exchange Coinbase published its first transparency report, noting that in the first half of 2020 the company received 1,914 government information requests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1166,138,26],"class_list":["post-30226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-centralized-exchanges-cex","tag-coinbase","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"8","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30228,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30226\/revisions\/30228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}