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+status: draft 
+flip: GOV-253
+authors: Coinbase Cloud (Shreif Abdallah)
+sponsors: Vishal Changrani
+updated: 2024-03-06
+---
+
+# FLIP GOV-253: Removing Verification node 268572e59ccc469592bb434715ac3c10649d681e6eace6fd11d00d1247ef1fdc
+
+
+### Proposal
+The verification node with node ID `268572e59ccc469592bb434715ac3c10649d681e6eace6fd11d00d1247ef1fdc` is no longer running.
+The node was staked through Coinbase. The customer needs to unstake the node but is unreachable as per Coinbase.
+The proposal is to remove the node from the approved list of node IDs via a transaction submitted by the service committee.
+This will remove the node from the network in the next epoch.
+
+### [Forum link](https://github.com/onflow/flips/issues/253)
+