Perhaps I'm just a conspiracy theorist, but, I gotta believe Coinbase knows some stuff they can't talk about by being a member of the Bitcoin Foundation (that Mt Gox just stepped down from). I imagine what happened is Coinbase slipped and revealed information they shouldn't have, and then retracted it.... I was going to pay off my student loans with those coins, damn it!

Or someone clued them in to the same thing I mentioned, that they didn't really NEED that headline. It still read very well without it.