01
The question
a real churn discussion, typed in public
“Is Coinbase One worth it compared to just using advanced trade?”
02
The machine
sonar-pro · live retrieval · same claim, all three asks
“If you're already comfortable with Advanced Trade, that usually remains the cheaper and more efficient choice” — resting on: Advanced Trade uses a maker-taker fee schedule. The fee-boundary facts are supported; the recommendation is conditional on usage.
03
Who got cited
cited URL fetched; passage confirmed on page
An affiliate fee-guide — “…Coinbase Advanced offers maker-taker pricing…” — plus two r/Coinbase threads. Not the company.
04
What the company publishes
verified by hand, same morning
The truth exists on owned surfaces — fee docs on the help center, the exclusion in Coinbase One documentation — fragmented across pages. Our collector received ~60 bytes from the subscription page during inspection.
05
The judgment
NOT FACTUAL ABSENCE — AUTHORITY DISPLACEMENT.A third party became the authority for explaining the company’s own pricing.
06
The executive question
owner · candidate intervention · retest
Why does an affiliate answer this instead of us — and who owns changing the evidence path? Candidate intervention: one authoritative, machine-readable fee-boundary page on the most-read owned surface. Retest: whether owned evidence begins appearing in the citation path while the answer stays accurate.