Coinbase talks to the SEC about a lot of things

Coinbase had a very long punch list from the SEC and it took a while for the regulator to get its arms around forks, airdrops, and staking — rhymes with fractional banking.

The public version of the Coinbase S-1 was posted to the SEC Edgar website on February 25, 2021.  I wrote about it here at The Dig on March 10. The company filed two more amended S-1/A on March 17, and March 23 and then its Notice of Effectiveness was posted April 1, 2021 at 4 p.m., April Fool’s Day.

The SEC announced on August 17, 2017, not long after J…