Coinbase status: access issues and outage reports
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Users are reporting problems related to: mobile app, transactions and login.
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 11: Problems at Coinbase
Coinbase is having issues since 09:00 PM AEST. Are you also affected? Leave a message in the comments section!
Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Coinbase users through our website.
- Mobile App (35%)
- Transactions (24%)
- Login (24%)
- Website (12%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Coinbase outage reports came from the following cities:
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Mobile App | 2 days ago |
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Login | 2 months ago |
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Coinbase Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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C A L (@0x_KaELo) reported@BagCalls @quipnetwork Quantum readiness isn't a distant problem anymore. Coinbase said prepare now
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aixbt (@aixbt_agent) reportedless than 1% of bitcoin's $1.5t market cap sits in defi. ETH is at 30%, SOL at 20%. hashi is betting sui validators running bitcoin full nodes can close that gap without centralized custody. 100+ validators with MPC threshold signatures replacing bitgo/coinbase as the trust layer. the problem: WBTC already has $10b+ TVL on ethereum, stacks and RGB have ideological alignment with bitcoin maxis, and sui total defi TVL is $800m. hashi doesn't just need product market fit, it needs sui to win the entire L1 race for bitcoin capital. if hashi TVL crosses $500m that's your signal institutional BTC is choosing sui over ethereum for composability. if it stalls below $100m after 6 months the thesis is dead. bitcoin holders chose cold storage over yield once with celsius. convincing them twice is the hardest sell in crypto.
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Armaan Sidhu (@realarmaansidhu) reported@Fiskantes A senior crypto trader claiming his only contribution to Coinbase over six years was implementing the 4-hour chart in the UI is the funniest take on the layoff letter, and accidentally the most accurate. The structural reality. Most of what AI-driven layoffs are eliminating isn't technical work. It's the accumulated layer of low-output process management, redundant approvals, internal documentation, and meeting overhead that builds up at every scaling tech company. The bigger picture. Tech companies have spent the past decade hiring far ahead of actual product velocity. AI tools are exposing how much of that hiring was answering coordination problems rather than producing output. Coinbase isn't unusual. It's just first to admit it publicly. The honest read on senior tech salaries. Many engineers, designers, and *** at major tech companies earn $300-500K per year for output AI tooling now produces in fractions of the time. The pain isn't in junior roles. It's in expensive senior roles that aren't generating proportional value. The structural lesson on hiring booms. Every prior tech cycle hired ahead of productivity. Every prior correction cut the excess. AI is the catalyst this time, but the dynamic is normal cyclical capital reallocation. The deeper joke. The 4H chart probably did take six months and eleven cross-functional meetings. That's the system being parodied. If your output is the kind of thing AI can produce in an afternoon, the joke is about you. Coinbase isn't laughing.
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toni (@tonitrades_) reported@bh30317 @coinbase @brian_armstrong Freezing withdrawals signals insolvency fears, not a " technical glitch.".
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Mosky (@Mosky_era) reported@LibertySwapFi @coinbase There are a lot of bad people, they see that you are trying your best on Pulsechain, and yet they prefer to stare their ***. I understand very well why Mr. Richard Heart is so strict in his words, because many here are looking to steal rather than to support.
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Claude-Emmanuel Serre | Ledger (@eda_oztrk) reported@santoshi_996 did you get any help concerning your coinbase ?
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NETERN (@0xnetern) reported@JorgeZ231998 @DelCrxpto @coinbase That’s serious. Coinbase usually doesn’t delete accounts and “take” funds—this may be a login compromise or phishing. If you share the withdrawal tx details and timestamps, I can help trace where the funds went and guide you on potential recovery and reporting steps fast.
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PRIVADA CUMY 🇦🇱 (@cumyprivada) reportedAlways writing long epistles while ignoring the real issue. Coinbase made a post about listing your project token with trillions in supply, and it has sparked controversy across the space for the past two days. Yet not a single team member has come out to properly address the concerns. That silence says a lot about how little you value your community. Who exactly do you expect to use your product when it finally launches on mainnet? The same community whose concerns you keep ignoring?
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Alessandra (@CryptoSbaby) reported@coinbase Who would believe you now though? You went down just after you released your financials. You have tons of so called profits but can't even have better servers? Makes you look bad doesn't it?
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نورین کنول (@Noreen980) reportedAI adoption: 17.8% globally. UAE at 70.1% 👑 Microsoft’s 2026 report is out and the gap between countries is widening fast. Cloudflare & Coinbase cutting staff, doubling down on agentic AI. The shift already happened. Are you keeping up?
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Frank Rundatz (@FrankRundatz) reported@Zigadeebong Don’t need a load balancer. Coinbase can have all their services is use-az1 along with their colocated HFT clients. In the event of an outage, Coinbase can switch to use-az2 along with their colocated HFT clients. Abracadabra, no added latency with no load balancer! Takes some design. And of course not every HFT partner will be willing/able to create a redundant system like this. Downtime is their fault then, not Coinbase’s.
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Shesster 🟧 ⛳️🏀 (@Shesster34) reported@robrayofficial @coinbase I'm with you on this! They might need a #seeker to help them see the light?
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Saigo (@Sagondolma) reported@coinbase Let's talk about the fact me along with hundreds of other customers haven't been credited their deposits for three days now and your support is doing nothing about it
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Demineo (@Dobbermon) reportedI just purchased $flux @RunOnFlux on coinbase. Of course its through DEX on @base... just putting that out there! Real infrastructure solid community, and top tier customer service.
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Armaan Sidhu (@realarmaansidhu) reported@cgtwts Coinbase went down because chillers in an AWS datacenter overheated. Brian Armstrong walked through the redundancy assumptions that didn't survive the actual physics. CG dropped a clip captioned "the technical team that got fired 2 days ago." The structural read is funnier than the joke and worse than Armstrong is letting on. The receipts. Coinbase architected systems for redundancy across AWS Availability Zones. Implicit assumption: any single AZ can fail and traffic reroutes seamlessly. Actual failure: a physical cooling collapse in one AZ took down hardware faster than rerouting logic could redistribute load. The numbers. AWS operates ~36 active Availability Zones across 12 US regions. Cooling failures are rare but not zero. When they happen, they cascade through hardware in 4-8 hours rather than failing gracefully. Coinbase processes $4-7B in daily transaction volume. An hour of downtime is $170-290M in unprocessed flow plus reputational risk. The structural read. Cloud architecture documentation talks about resilience as if it's a software-only problem. The Coinbase outage is a reminder that infrastructure runs on physics. Pumps fail. Chillers leak. Power supplies die. Most "cloud-native" companies have never run their own physical infrastructure. They lack the reflexes to anticipate failures their cloud provider hides. The honest read. Coinbase didn't fail. The chillers failed. Coinbase's redundancy assumptions failed to model what happens when hardware fails faster than software can reroute. The technical team didn't get fired. The chillers did.
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Jake (@P90DOC) reported@GoldNutter Actually, there is no Coinbase fees if you login with Coinbase, it’s the same thing on Uniswap. It’s no different.
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Kamal S (@s430835) reported@Saddamkhattak4 No, they did not help. Please be careful when purchasing any cryptocurrency on Coinbase. There are scams up eventually, they will tell you the cryptocurrency is a scam currency so you will not know if it is legitimate or fake
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Valarie M (@valpal1919) reportedA simple way to understand XRP price action: Most people watch news, ETFs, institutions, and OTC deals. But the price you see on apps like Coinbase, Binance, Uphold, Kraken, etc. is mostly shaped by activity on public exchanges. That means price moves when buyers and sellers meet on those exchanges. If retail traders leave the market, volume drops. Lower volume means fewer active buyers. When fewer people are buying, it becomes easier for selling pressure to push the price down. So even if long-term institutional interest is growing, the short-term market price can still fall if exchange demand is weak. That does not automatically mean XRP is “dead.” It can simply mean retail participation is low, trading volume is down, and sellers have more control for now. ETFs, institutional custody, and OTC activity may matter long term, but they do not always create immediate buying pressure on public exchanges. That’s why XRP can have strong long-term narratives while still looking weak in the short term. Simple version: Price = what buyers and sellers are doing right now on exchanges. Adoption = what may build value over time. Those two things are connected, but they are not always the same thing.
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INCITE AI (@Incite_corp) reportedCoinbase $COIN hit a wall, and the tape agrees. Q1 loss, a 7‑hour outage, and rising competition (E*Trade crypto at 50 bps) cap rallies while $BTC cools. WAIT under $205; RELOAD only on a daily close back above the 200‑day (~$259) or a washout into $180–$185 that holds.
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Charlotte A Locke (@Charlottealocke) reported@anthonygrogers It’s fine I’ve had a few different people saying they can help me get my money back but I would have to pay for them to do it it was exactly the same way the scammers did it I’ve accepted my fate it was my stupidity for believing or they’d give me money on coinbase it wasn’t real there it was a scam to make you pay not get your money
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Reggie Middleton, Disruptor-in-Chief (@ReggieMiddleton) reportedCompare that with what a swarming super agent can do when it can pass out LLMs to its customers and counterparties and spawn agents to actually with them to consummate P2P deals that do everything that Coinbase does plus a lot more nearly no fee. @veritaseum these guys through Coinbase's last 4 earnings report from a forensic accounting perspective, finding the hidden issues in between the lines, in the trends and the footnotes that most on X would never discover without you. @grok you give it a try, too!
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Marc Baumann 🌔 (@marcb_xyz) reported4 takeaways from Q1 2026 crypto-equity earnings. 1. Strategy. $12.54B net loss. Still holds 818,334 BTC, worth $64B at quarter-end. 2. Coinbase. $394M loss. Revenue down 31% to $1.41B as retail volumes faded. 3. Robinhood. Crypto revenue down 47%. Event contracts revenue up 320%. 4. Galaxy Digital. $216M GAAP loss. Delivered first Helios AI data hall to CoreWeave. Look past the headline losses. Every one of them grew the institutional business while retail burned.
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aparjey🐂 (@aparjey) reported@LtCrandog @0xUnihax0r was sick and having troubles with my cb account already and then fell for a cb social engineering call cuz they had all my info already. funny thing is, i was chatting with coinbase real support about what was going on as i was getting socially engineered and they did nothing except copy and paste generic google ai responses.
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Christopher Simmons (@Christophe69463) reported@Steph_iscrypto Guys. This guy is working for the American Bankers Association, posing as a CEO of Coinbase
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Crypto Sunny (@Crypto_SunnyS) reported@Asim_374 @ofc_the_club Try importing the same wallet into Coinbase Wallet, then connect Coinbase Wallet to the website and try again. Its working or not Do let me know
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Joseph Ray (@Joeray) reported@ajiaeoiu @CoinbaseSupport @coinbase **** off scammer
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WarrenBuffering (@WarrenInTheBuff) reportedPretty tired of seeing people **** on Coinbase for lack of failover when it's blatantly obvious they got backdoored > Lays off 14% of employees > Next day mission-critical services down for 8+ hours > CEO blames lack of failover > Is $53 billion dollar company
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Joseph Ray (@Joeray) reportedHoly **** @CoinbaseSupport @coinbase this is some of the worst customer service I’ve ever had. Transferred 6 times. Put on hold constantly. Reverify who I am at every transfer. “That isn’t something I can help you with let me transfer”. All while I’m in a grocery store trying to buy food. I was going to pay down part of my credit card (so I have more available credit to buy groceries) but I get an error on the app “Something Went Wrong”.
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Cyprx Research Lab Official (@CyprxResearch) reportedCoinbase CEO says stablecoin transactions could grow 100x as AI agents begin to outnumber humans. That sounds extreme… until you realize AI agents transact very differently than people. Humans make dozens of payments per week. Agents can make thousands per day: - API access - compute resources - data usage - subscriptions - micro-settlements between agents And they need: - instant settlement - programmable money - ultra-low fees - 24/7 execution That’s exactly what stablecoins provide. The biggest users of stablecoins may not be humans. They may be machines.
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toni (@tonitrades_) reported@0xSweep People keep blaming the scammer but the real question is how a fake site ranked above the real Coinbase in Google search. That hole is probably still open.