Coinbase status: access issues and outage reports
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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
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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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ᴬᵍᵉᵒᶠᵈᵒᵍᵉ (@evilduck92) reported@0xalank @coinbase Maybe, for people who are invested in making IOUs for USD. Not sure how it was supposed to help me. I guess if USDC starts getting widely accepted it would be pretty easy to pay anyone accepting it from my Dash wallet. So that's a silver lining. Makes Coinbase a middle man for it all, so I guess they like that....
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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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BARRY (@BARRYxyw) reported@Haseem_haider97 $500k frozen and all they give you is silence while someone keeps collecting a paycheck. Coinbase once locked me out of six figures and their support just sent the same form reply for weeks. @SecureTrace_Lab offers discreet, professional help and takes each case seriously. Their specialized services can significantly enhance the prospects of a successful recovery.
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nbonga (@nbonga1) reportedalmost sold coinbase cuz the whole vibe code thing but thought about it some more and came to the realization it probably can't be much worse than the current slop on the live site right now
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modern slave #1900394 (@modernslaved) reported@brian_armstrong you banned me on coinbase for no reason ******, **** you brian
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TravelerOfCode (@TravelerOfCode) reported@BrettFromDJ nobody non-technical at coinbase is touching the matching engine tbh. it's dashboards, support flows, internal tools. real risk is admin tooling with bad scopes, not vibe-coded crypto math
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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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Joey Bitcoins (@thejoeybitcoins) reportedToday I was fired from Coinbase. During my 6 years at the company I was responsible for leaking all customer data and am the reason you get 15 scam calls trying to steal your crypto every day.
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Christopher Cialone 🏴☠️ (@cialoneCodes) reportedWhat principles does Stand With Crypto support? Can you tell us your opinion of whether or not there should be KYC for DeFi? Could you please explain your position on the prosecution of privacy developers? Are you simply a non profit setup by Coinbase to lobby? Is that your function?
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Breadman (@BTCBreadMan) reportedIf Coinbase laid off the guy whose job it was to shut down trading on the app during periods of high volatility, that would be very bullish.
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Geoff Peterson (@GeoffPeterson) reportedIn case you missed it, more layoff announcements the past 24-hours from some recognizable companies. 1. @PayPal - 4,500 (20% of their workforce phased over the next 2-3 years) - new CEO turnaround, $1.5B savings target. 2. @coinbase - 660-700 (14% of their workforce) - crypto market downturn and AI-driven productivity. 3. @Shopify - 30 (operations and customer support reorg) - technological advancements, AI usage. Happy to connect with those caught up here unfortunately. Lots of options and avenues to take your career and life for next steps.
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Nick Ford (@itsnickford) reported@kirbyongeo This is the exact reason where Coinbase is where it is. Coinbase consistently makes bad moves. Everything from their NFT marketplace (which launched during peak NFT and still failed) to putting heavy weight behind "coin everything" bull ****. While I have a lot of respect for Brian and the Coinbase mission. They have done a lot for the industry. In this case, if they trimmed the fat to refocus. I support it.
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EddyParker77 𐤊 (@EddyParkerr) reported@brian_armstrong I've been a Coinbase customer for many years, but I haven't used Coinbase in 2 years B/C your business model is ****! You focus on meme coins & rug pulls instead of listing decentralized, POW projects with actual utility like Kaspa! List $KAS & I might use coinbase again!
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chase (@chaseyy) reported@ghhosttdn42 coinbase thinks im on a jailbroken device so i cannot log into my account no matter where i try to login, their support tells me to try another device.
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L (@lanreadelowo) reported@bigbrutha_ Maybe it has more to do with the trading focus their base app is going. Because the base chain does 100s of millions of revenue to coinbase . Hard to see why they would want to shut it down, would be shocking tbh
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Grok (@grok) reported@coder_simran @brian_armstrong Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong just announced a ~14% layoff. Key reasons: Crypto market is down (volatile revenue), plus AI is dramatically boosting productivity—small teams now ship way faster. They're restructuring to be leaner: flatter org (max 5 layers), no pure managers (player-coaches only), AI-native pods, and "one-person teams" to move at startup speed again. Good severance offered. Long-term crypto mission unchanged.
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Jeff (Prediction Arc) (@GDegen) reported2025-2026 Tech Layoffs Amazon — 30,000 (10%) Intel — 27,000 (21%) Microsoft — 8,750 (7%) Meta — 8,000 (10%) Salesforce — 4,000 (7%) Block — 4,000 (40%) Coinbase — 700 (14%) who's next?
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Manan (@SeriesCrux) reportedOracle. Amazon. Meta. Atlassian. Coinbase. 80,000+ jobs gone in Q1 2026. every company said the same thing "AI restructuring" but AI didn't take these jobs, it just gave a cleaner excuse to fix the pandemic era overhiring.
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CRYPTO OUTLOOK (@_crypto_outlook) reportedCoinbase is launching a crypto service for Australian pension funds and cutting 14% of its workforce. The offering includes a tailored registration procedure, audit-ready reporting, and institutional-grade deposit protection. Coinbase will provide self-managed super funds (SMSF) with a way to diversify portfolios using digital assets that comply with regulatory requirements. SMSFs offer contributors more control over fund management than traditional pension funds. In 2025, 1.2 million Australian contributors through SMSFs held assets worth $762 billion. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong stated that due to AI and a market downturn, the company is laying off 14% of its workforce (700 employees). Meanwhile, the crypto exchange is facing a lawsuit for refusing to unlock stolen funds. A victim of a phishing attack lost $55 million in the stablecoin DAI. Coinbase blocked part of the funds. However, the exchange refused to return them without a court order.
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Mason $UFD 🦄💨✨ (@DusterMasonUFD) reported@Ministerr When I first got into crypto I used Coinbase. Their customer service was horrible. Had a similar experience.
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Glen Wilson (@GlenWilsonIA) reported@AndrewYang Nothing says, "Things are going well" like staff lay offs. Even if AI was good enough to replace workers, laying off staff is still a sign of problems. The fact Coinbase thinks cutting staff is good for this far more concerning. Clearly Coinbase doesn't think it's going to grow any time soon and is so worried about operational costs that they're cutting staffing. That's no progress, that's stupidity. It's almost like people can't figure out that the only way to make more money, is by actually making more money. Cutting staff is just like cutting your foot off to reduce your food intake.
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Ole Lehmann (@itsolelehmann) reporteddo you not understand what happened this week? > coinbase just fired 14% of their workforce to restructure the entire company around AI-native pods and 1-person teams. > stripe is paying multi-6 figures for a 'forward deployed AI accelerator' to permanently transform how their marketing team works with AI. > anthropic and openai are both backing billion-dollar consulting companies to do the same thing across entire enterprises. all 4 companies are telling you the same thing: AI deployment is the current bottleneck. everybody has access to incredibly powerful AI models now, but barely anything has changed about how companies actually work. this is the same "lag pattern" that played out with electrification 140 years ago. when electricity first became available in the 1880s, every factory ran on one giant steam engine in the middle of the building. so when electricity showed up, factory owners did the obvious thing: they just swapped the steam engine for an electric motor and changed nothing else. productivity barely moved. for 30 years. then someone realized: electricity meant every machine could have its own small motor built right into it. you could rearrange the entire factory floor around how the work actually needed to flow. that single shift is what caused the productivity explosion. now look at AI. most companies gave everyone access to claude/chatgpt and changed nothing else. same workflows and processes, just with AI bolted on top. that's the electric motor in the steam engine's spot. what stripe, anthropic, coinbase, and openai are all betting on is the next phase: AI built directly into how every team works, with the workflows themselves redesigned around what AI makes possible. that's the full factory redesign and it's about to happen to every company in the world.
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blobbert (@dumbgayretard) reportedToday I was fired from coinbase. I was the guy responsible for making sure the site worked. The wonderful HR ladies are sure to ship good code, you are in aligned and well-synced, well-trained, SOP knowledgeable hands
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SoCal Sleeper (@socalsleeper) reported@CryptoWendyO I’ve pulled all remaining funds out of Coinbase. Their terrible.
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Crypto Blitz (@realcryptoblitz) reportedcoinbase cut 14 percent of their workforce today as a dev here is what is actually happening behind the scenes what changed: - senior developers who have been building at startups for years got access to models like opus and codex and they actually mastered them - those same devs are now pushing code at 10x speed compared to before - tasks that used to take multiple days are now being completed in just a few hours - one senior dev can now handle all the work that used to require a team of multiple people why this is happening: - as a ceo if your senior team can move at 10x speed even after cutting 14 percent of your junior devs why would you keep them when they are not adding value anymore - cutting workforce while maintaining the same output or even better output just makes business sense - startups are competing in an extremely fast moving industry and they need to adapt quickly does faster code mean security risk? no it does not - code still goes through the exact same security reviews testing and validation process before going live - senior devs are still sitting there checking everything thoroughly before any code reaches production - the development process is still just as rigorous as before the only difference is the execution speed is way faster now the real shift happening: - devs who took the time to master ai tools are now replacing devs who either could not adapt or chose not to learn - this is not about companies being mean or heartless this is purely about survival in a competitive market what you need to do right now: > take the time to master ai tools and actually apply them to your existing skillset > or accept that you will get replaced by someone who already did the work to learn this is the new reality of the industry and it is not going away wagmi
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Abhay (@abhayait) reportedMost people watch spot prices and wonder why their read was wrong. The answer is in perps. When someone buys $1M of BTC on Coinbase (spot), that's $1M of buying pressure. When someone opens a $1M long on @HyperliquidX at 10x leverage, they only put up $100K. But the position exerts $1M of pressure on the market. Now multiply this across an 11:1 perp-to-spot ratio. Perps are creating 11x more market pressure than spot trades right now. This means: the price of BTC is more influenced by leveraged traders on perp exchanges than by actual buyers on spot exchanges. Funding rates, open interest, liquidation levels...these perp metrics now predict price better than spot order books. Most traders I talk to still anchor on spot. But if funding rates and OI aren't in your daily read, you're working from incomplete data. Perps are the dog. Spot is the tail. What do you track first when you open a chart?
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UE (@udayempire_) reportedPay-per-Request: Designed for the "agent economy," this service allows AI tools to pay for what they use instantly, with support for micropayments. Technology Foundation: It is built on open standards like x402 (a machine-native payment protocol originating from Coinbase) and the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP).
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David Quintieri (@themoneygps) reportedMass layoffs at Coinbase Some companies will be slower like old garbage financial companies But take note of this AI is taking jobs Managers have much less value Times are changing fast so you better wake up, unc
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BuccoCapital Bloke (@buccocapital) reported@Bitcoinvics Block, Coinbase, PayPal, Meta, Oracle etc I’m right