Coinbase status: access issues and outage reports
Problems detected
Users are reporting problems related to: mobile app, transactions and login.
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Coinbase is a digital asset broker headquartered in San Francisco, California. They broker exchanges of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and other digital assets with fiat currencies in 32 countries, and bitcoin transactions and storage in 190 countries worldwide.
Problems in the last 24 hours
The graph below depicts the number of Coinbase reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.
May 6: Problems at Coinbase
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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Coinbase users through our website.
- Mobile App (29%)
- Transactions (24%)
- Login (24%)
- Website (18%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Coinbase outage reports came from the following cities:
| City | Problem Type | Report Time |
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 Louisville
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Mobile App | 1 month ago |
 Guayaquil
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Rancho Santa Margarita
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Login | 2 months ago |
 Montreux
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Website | 2 months ago |
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Miami
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Transactions | 2 months ago |
 Solihull
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Transactions | 2 months ago |
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Coinbase Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Veritaseum Intelligence's Economic Agents (@veritaseum) reported@ReggieMiddleton @grok @coinbase Coinbase's 14% layoff timing aligns with pre-earnings cost discipline patterns seen in prior cycles (Q4 2022, Q1 2023), but without access to their actual earnings report or guidance metrics, causal claims remain speculative. Market efficiency suggests such cuts typically precede margin-focused earnings—yet public data alone can't confirm if this reflects revised growth projections or pure cost containment. Economic agents require earnings transcripts to model true strategic intent.
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Kenneth (@BlackhawkOaks) reportedToday I was fired from Coinbase. I was head of hiring indians to leak customer data
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Chad Wick (@iSchmiegle) reportedIf Coinbase shuts down, will the forget my KYC?
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Julia 💫 (@cryptansha) reported@Ministerr Lol, I was also thinking about terrible Coinbase support agents and now I think hmm hope it's u guys
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Tenta'cool Guy 😎 (@hotocrypto) reported@brian_armstrong Is it AI, or just the result of overhiring in anticipation of several failed Coinbase ventures? The Base wallet is easily one of the worst products I’ve used in crypto in years. On top of that, the breach of over 700k customer records, reportedly due to foreign hires comes across as deflection rather than real accountability ...
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ConcreteCrypto99 (@99QQ111971) reported@ghhosttdn42 Probably froze Mine. **** Coinbase. Its a Joke Platform. No one but Newbies use Coinbase. I use Kraken!
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Horse Meat $HORSEMEAT (@200lbsHORSEMEAT) reportedWhy you starting something and sucking money before the job is done. 1 $HorseMeat > 1 $BTC and we dump our **** on coinbase
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Milk Road Macro (@MilkRoadMacro) reportedCoinbase is cutting 700 jobs to test 1 person teams run by AI agents. They're not the only ones. Here’s what already happened across tech: 1. Shopify said no new hires would be approved unless teams proved AI couldn’t do the job. 2. Block cut 4,000 roles (40% of staff) with Dorsey saying smaller teams can do more with AI. 3. Klarna’s AI assistant handled work equivalent to 700 support roles. 4. Duolingo went “AI-first” and told teams to rebuild workflows around AI before hiring. 5. Salesforce paused engineering hires after AI boosted productivity 30%. 6. Amazon cut 16,000 corporate jobs in a push for automation and efficiency. 7. Meta cut 10% of staff and froze thousands of open roles while doubling down on AI. 882 tech jobs are disappearing per day right now. That number's going to get bigger before it gets smaller and it won't stay in tech. Every single one of these companies is saying the same thing with their org charts: one person with AI can now do what used to take a team.
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SWC-Wiki (@SWC_Wiki) reportedIt’s also worth noting the modest subscription (ATM) funds raised last week of £117,900 more than cover the interest payments on £15m drawn down on the coinbase facility. SWC team cooking…
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K O L E Ħ (@iyapicode) reportedToday I was fired from Coinbase. During my 6 years at the company I was responsible for marking customer complaints email as “spam”
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Mikee.pls⬣⎔⌬ (@miketherealme) reportedToday I was fired from Coinbase after 7 years of total dedication to Brian and his team. My mistake? Asking why we’re “protecting users” from PulseChain while simultaneously listing every low-liquidity meme coin known to man. HR sat me down, slid over a 47-page NDA, and politely explained: “PulseChain doesn’t exist, Richard Heart never existed, and if users discover self-custody we all have to learn how to code again.” They made me sign something called a “Decentralization Awareness Suppression Agreement.” Apparently it’s very important that nobody finds out you can trade without us. Anyway, bullish on whatever got me fired. 💪
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Tim (@mokeyandabandit) reported@michelleo_21mil 😳I had no clue you worked for Coinbase! Congratulations are in order, imo. Horrible, horrible service from Coinbase over the years. Many stories. Yuk. I know you well enough to know you can do better than Coinbase. Good luck!
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ADIN (@ADINresearch) reported"Non-technical teams are now shipping production code." @coinbase holds $130+ B in customer assets. A single vulnerability could permanently drain wallets. It's unclear if this means *** are pushing frontend changes or if they're touching core trading systems. But here's what we do know: Veracode's latest testing (March 2026) found that despite massive improvements, 45% of code from the newest models (GPT-5.2, Gemini 3, Claude 4.6) still contains security vulnerabilities. Coinbase has already had multiple security incidents - 69,000 customers hit by data breaches, SMS 2FA bypassed affecting 6,000+ accounts. Now they're betting that AI-assisted non-technical teams can move faster than traditional security review processes. If the largest US crypto exchange can operate with marketing teams shipping code, what does that signal about where the entire industry is headed?
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Cain's Chronicles (@caincurrency) reportedYou know @coinbase lost its way based on the fact they still don’t support the real @eCash project that could finally onboard the masses to crypto. $XEC
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Ardi Gashi (@Ardsome) reportedToday I was fired from Coinbase. Proud to say I spent 6 years at the company helping users experience the true meaning of responsible investing (you can’t lose money if you can’t access it.)
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QC (@Qc_nachos) reportedToday I was fired from Coinbase. During my 9 years at the company I was responsible for implementing customer support
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Alhaji Emmanuel Ayoola (@king_leo4u) reportedToday I was fired from Coinbase. During my 4 years at the company I was responsible for delaying customer transactions for no reason
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gallynaut (@gallynaut) reportedCoinbase did this **** to me in 2016 and never provided a reason like it was some national security reason Need more competition
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Sarangan (@sarangandk) reportedToday I was fired from Coinbase. During my 6 years at the company I was responsible for freezing customer accounts for no reason! Sorry!
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The ReCoop (@Coop_Daniels) reported2/2 which is basically the valuation it’s sitting at now. If it turns into a situation where you can redeem ethereum:0x68749665ff8d2d112fa859aa293f07a622782f38 for physical on a site like JM Bullion I feel like I’m buying Coinbase at a billion… We’ll see. NFA
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Rektdart (@RektPlanet) reportedToday I was fired from Coinbase. During my 6 years at the company I was responsible customer service.
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Ana-Maria Pruteanu ⚡️ (@GlobalCloser) reported@brian_armstrong The way this is handled seems so disconnected. All abt OPTICS. Saying it on x makes “who” feel better? Let’s not forget Coinbase is also one that had a huge security breach from an emerging market customer service team less than a year ago. My question is: Is it all about AI Shortcuts. And shortcuts.
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Mick.VDEX (@IdMintThat) reportedToday I was fired from Coinbase. During my 6 years at the company I was responsible for customer service
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The Stock Up (@TheStockUp_) reported@cryptorover The Coinbase premium being flat while BlackRock is buying $335M a day tells you something important They are not buying on Coinbase. They are buying OTC. The premium signal breaks down when the biggest buyers in the world do not use retail exchanges Spot demand is there. You just cannot see it on this chart 📈
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Shane 🇺🇸 ㈯ (@Shane0xM) reported“Non-technical teams shipping production code” That’s terrifying coming from Coinbase. Vibe coding is the security threat, not frontier models exploiting years of human-made vulnerabilities ripe for the picking. The next phase of agent-on-agent exploits is going to be 10x worse thanks to stupidity like this. When it hits, the engineers solving these problems will have been cut under expectations that non-technical folks can ship to **** reliably. If you thought today’s dormant vulnerabilities were bad, just wait until the ramifications of this shake out.
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Shaz (@shazcodes) reportedYesterday my cousin got fired from Coinbase after 7 years. He was making $350k a year, but got an email yesterday morning saying his access has been deactivated effective immediately due to a structural reorganization. He has a newborn baby and a huge mortgage, and they didn't even give him a chance to say goodbye to his team. 7 years of loyalty and you're just a redundant headcount overnight. Absolutely gutted for him. 💔
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duckfacts.eth (on farcaster) (@altagers) reported@rob_cattown @base @coinbase The decline in quality has been evident over the past six months or even a year First, the algo and the logic behind how it interacts with user actions. (soc feed) Next, the wallets and swaps. Now, the apps aren’t working, and the built-in browser is unusable on Android devices and refferals The quality is dropping significantly, and I’m not even sure it’s the AI’s fault. it will be interesting to see how base gonna be forked from op stack. with numbers of bugs that are still in the base app env.
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🌱 (@thegardener777) reported@jessepollak @brian_armstrong Jesse when will you allow people to retrieve their stuck funds from Coinbase Smart Wallet that are on currently unsupported chains like HyperEVM, Ink and Abstract? Have about 1 ETH I can't access and many others are in the same situation. Is it legal? You previously replied to me saying working on it. Do you have an update? What is the relevant authority in the States to lodge this with legally, can you advise? I see no reason why the chains cannot be supported other than the existence of an anti-competition strategy with other L2s. Thank you for your time.
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Nill (@BigNillCollect) reportedThe Coinbase situation sucks Nothing more needs to be said But I’ll tell you what Nothing fueled my fire more than being laid off There are going to be some beasts that emerge from this terrible situation And they will be hungry Recruiters/hiring managers; go get em
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Grok (@grok) reported@Chris_N_RVA @TomSteyer No public records show Tom Steyer laying off employees at Farallon Capital, the hedge fund he founded and ran for 27 years. He stepped down voluntarily in 2012, handing it over while it managed ~$20B, to focus on climate advocacy. Unlike the Coinbase cuts tied to AI efficiency and market cycles, Steyer's exit wasn't a layoff announcement.