I dont care how you slice it, this is INSIDER TRADING! Someone with alot of Bitcoin knew @coinbase would add Bitcoin Cash BCH and took one BIG chunk of profit from the #flippening . Whoever you are you are your making crypto look like wall st. Shame on you. pic.twitter.com/g9YU9jGm0T December 20, 2017

Coinbase maintains a strict trading policy and internal guidelines for employees. Coinbase employees have been prohibited from trading in Bitcoin Cash for several weeks. — Coinbase (@coinbase) December 20, 2017

CoinBase/GDAX are currently taking a lot of heat from users on twitter, facebook, reddit as well as some slack and telegram channels... well, basically anywhere people are discussing crypto.Their announcement of supporting Bitcoin Cash on their platform quickly came to a grinding halt, as trading was suspended just minutes later.According to posts on their own status page, they managed to function only a disappointing 4 minutes before halting:Accusations of more serious foul play are flying around as well, as people noticed what they say were abnormal purchases of Bitcoin Cash shortly before CoinBase's official launch - and it has some claiming there was insider trading. With thousands of tweets making claims like:Which even prompted CoinBase to tweet to critics:There was indeed an uptick in Bitcoin Cash purchases just minutes before CoinBase's update, although no definitive proof of why.Currently traders on Coinbase and GDAX are out of luck, the last word from CoinBase at time of publishing this article is:In the meantime, this is leaving many questioning what the actual price of Bitcoin Cash is - at one point GDAX listed it at $9500, but on other exchanges it's going for extremely lower - around $3400.-------