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Coinbase only supported Bitcoin Cash support after some backlash. They'd previously announced (pre-fork) they would not be supporting it and that you should withdraw your Bitcoin if you wanted access to the forked currency post-fork. Did Armstrong publicly change his mind?

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They could have handled it much better. It was very pathetic for a multi billion dollar company.

Also Coinbase has stated that they want bigger blocks. They have not contributed at all to the development of 2nd layer scaling like LN. They also took too long to finally adopt Segwit.

For Coinbase, it's much easier to increase the blocks. This means they don't have to invest in their own Bitcoin infrastructure to make it more efficient.

Coinbase is now contributing to solutions like LN:

https://blog.coinbase.com/introducing-the-coinbase-protocol-...

some actual results:

jimpo is working at coinbase:

https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/graphs/contributors

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