> The thing I hate about this fake corporate mission is there is absolutely no need for the lie.

I get what you're saying, and I dislike the deception also, but there is an intention and a purpose behind it.

The mission statement is for recruiting and retention. At a good company, it has some truth to it. Coinbase management understood that companies are supposed to have mission statements, and they may have even understood why. They just didn't understand that mission statements are supposed to be true.

(Obviously a lot of other companies don't get that part either.)