Bitcoin Exchange Coinbase Suffers ‘Major Outage’ Amid Trading Rage

in #crypto-news8 years ago (edited)

Citing high customer traffic, prominent cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is currently down ‘for maintenance’.

San Francisco-based Coinbase, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges with operations in over 30 countries is, at the time of publishing, experiencing an outage due to a surge in customer traffic hitting its website.

Users accessing the homepage see a message that simply reads “Service Unavailable”.

A closer look at the exchange’s real-time status page shows much of the damage coming from a rapid surge in customers trying to access the website. Coinbase’s own status for its website reads ‘Major Outage’ in red.

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Outage? Seriously? Lol...

Seriously yes ^^

Can confirm, had problems earlier

No no no. The price went down and they shut operations. They are happy to sell at a higher price. I will believe a shut down when I EVER see it happen as the price is climbing rapidly.
This is what happens when there are no fears of regulations.