legal crypto currency based trades with us investors and a sham compliance program. company founder john peng, joe and former chief compliance officer, samuel lim. we're also named in the suit us government accuses by nancy encouraging you as customers to open accounts without verifying their identity and allowing them to communicate with the company, the messenger service that then deleted all chat records. in a written statement, finance said the suit was disappointing, but promised to continue to work with regulators that day as a managing editor at coin desk, which covers the crypto currency industry. nick, american regulators going after the world's largest crypto exchange and it's founder as someone who covers this industry. how surprised are you? hey, thanks for having me. i would say this has been telegraphed for a while now. we've known even finance officials have acknowledged that us regulators would soon be taking action against the company they expected to find to settle these charges. and i think the specific agency, in this case, the commodities regulator, might have been a litt