There are plenty of services that transparently convert fiat into BTC.

Which would require me to set up an account with them, which I may or may not be willing to do, due to the general shadiness surrounding bitcoin businesses.

It seems like you've already made up your mind that you're not willing to do any business in bitcoin, but, okay, I'll bite.

Name something shady (and true) about coinbase.

They're associated with bitcoin, and bitcoin business is quite shady.

You may not like or agree with the reasoning, but I guarantee you that a lot of normal, non-tech people are going to be thinking like that.

This is also in addition to the fact that I just don't want to make another money account. Especially for something I'm probably not going to use outside of this.

> They're associated with bitcoin, and bitcoin business is quite shady.

Ergo decedo ad hominem

> You may not like or agree with the reasoning

I don't dislike or disagree your reasoning, objectively speaking, your reasoning is a common logical fallacy.

Doesn't matter. That's how most people are going to react. And as I said, the major reason is that I don't want to create yet another account with credit card info that I have to worry about, and that I'm not really going to use for anything.