Court Likens Coinbase to a ‘Traditional Bank’ in Child Porn Appeal Case

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A court has likened Coinbase to a “traditional bank” in rejecting an appeal from a convicted child porn purchaser who appealed using the Fourth Amendment.
A three-judge panel has ruled that FBI agents who subpoenaed Coinbase records to show a man had used Bitcoin to access child pornography did not violate his Fourth Amendment rights.

They rejected the appeal of Richard Gratkowski, who was convicted of receiving child pornography and accessing websites with the intent to view child pornography in May 2019 and was sentenced to 70 months in prison with 10 years of probation.

On June 30, the court likened Coinbase to a traditional bank, citing the Supreme Court’s unanimous 1939 decision in United States v. Miller — which found that bank records were not protected by the Fourth Amendment.
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