Coinbase is down

czsr 8 years ago |

Coinbase said that:

Minor Service Outage: We're investigating performance issues on Coinbase.com and are working to resolve them. We will update with more information as it becomes available.

https://support.coinbase.com/

alva 8 years ago |

Coinbase always seems to go down during a flash-crash. they re-open once the price has stabilised. This was the case even when they had a lot less users.

It makes me very nervous about what they could be doing behind the scenes.

SilasX 8 years ago |

Also Gemini (Gemini’s public site is up but ability to log in is intermittent).

Kraken and Bitstamp has outages around 7:30am Pacific. (Bitstamp’s public site was up but trading updates had stopped at 7:18).

BoorishBears 8 years ago |

Sufficient traffic can act like a DDoS...

Coinbase has frequently been spotty during large fluctuations in Bitcoin’s price due to high trade volume.

kylezinter 8 years ago |

Hmmm I wonder if this is an actual attack or just a flush of actual users.

SilasX 8 years ago | |

Coinbase had like four outages in June that coincided with unusually high volume. I wish people had taken the hint that it will happen during hot times.

kylezinter 8 years ago | | |

True, makes sense. It's interesting, I found a few other sites having issues right now too, like Kraken when trying to log in it has an SSL handshake issue with cloudflare.

kylezinter 8 years ago | | |

Just seeing now that you already noticed that, nvm.

SilasX 8 years ago | | |

Link to that comment for posterity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15807634