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[On November 29], Coinbase suffered a major defeat at the hands of the Internal Revenue Service, nearly a year after the case was initially filed. A California federal court has ordered Coinbase to turn over identifying records for all users who have bought, sold, sent, or received more than $20,000 through their accounts in a single year between 2013 and 2015. Coinbase estimates that 14,355 users meet the government's requirements.
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Coinbase Ordered to Report 14,355 Users to the IRS
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When I met th'POPE back in '58, I scrubbed him with a MILD SOAP or
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(Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Tuesday December 05 2017, @02:51PM
Sure it can be. If it's 14,355 +/- 5, it's pretty exact.
If it's 14,355 +/- 10,000, it's a very vague estimate. Without a stated margin of error, we can't know which is implied.
"Round numbers" based on base 10 are completely arbitrary and should not be seen as a necessary center for a statistical distribution. I know there's a concept of "significant figures" which is sort of what you're getting at, but without error bars, we can't know what's implied about precision here.