IRS to Coinbase: Please identify active US traders between 2013 and 2015

As part of an ongoing tax evasion investigation, the Internal Revenue Service has asked a federal court to force Coinbase, a popular online Bitcoin wallet service, to hand over years of data that would reveal the identities of all of its active United States-based users.

David Utze, a senior revenue agent at the IRS, wrote the following in a Thursday affidavit: