According to news on December 3, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong posted on people, we will no longer be their customers. Trying to illegally kill an industry while refusing to publish clear rules is, in my opinion, an ethical violation. If you are a senior official there, you cannot say you are just following orders. They had the option to leave the SEC, and many well-intentioned people chose to leave. This is not a normal SEC term. They can go work in other fields (I don't believe in permanently canceling people), but as an industry we shouldn't be putting money in their pockets after being devastated. Let your law firm know that hiring these people means losing you as a client. "