Supreme Court Weighs In on Coinbase User Privacy Dispute

The US government has urged the Supreme Court to deny a request from James Harper, a Coinbase user seeking to prevent the IRS from accessing his cryptocurrency transaction records. The Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued that Harper’s financial information was voluntarily disclosed to Coinbase and the IRS acted lawfully within the bounds of a court-approved summons. This legal battle arises from an IRS investigation into underreported taxes on cryptocurrency gains, which prompted a