So was it announced that Bitcoin cash was being added to coinbase or did this just surprisingly happen? We need to know this and who the source was...
well its kinda a long story.
BCC was created from a fork of bitcoin (a fork is like mitosis, if you paid attention in HS biology) back in august. The thing about a fork is that if you have coins in the original you get coins in both coins, its basically free money
at the time i was just on coinbase and i hadnt advanced to the exchanges, but apparently people in the exchanges all got the new BCC coins, but not the people in coinbase, at the time coinbase was hating on BCC heavy, saying they were not going to support it
but the coinbase users were mad and then coinbase announced that eventually coinbase users will get their BCC coin and then they announced it would be on Jan 1st but people would only be able to withdraw BCC not sell or buy
So people knew BCC was kinda sorta on the way but people thought it was just to receive the BCC from the fork and not full fledged buy, sell, trade BCC and people were expecting it on Jan 1st, not today