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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 12: Problems at Coinbase

Coinbase is having issues since 12:40 AM 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.

  • 40% Mobile App (40%)
  • 27% Transactions (27%)
  • 20% Login (20%)
  • 7% Website (7%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Coinbase outage reports came from the following cities:

CityProblem TypeReport Time
Houston Mobile App 3 days ago
Louisville Mobile App 1 month ago
Guayaquil 1 month ago
Rancho Santa Margarita Login 2 months ago
Montreux Website 2 months ago
Miami Transactions 2 months ago
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Coinbase Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • Toobbss
    Tobi (@Toobbss) reported

    @ChronisGio19840 @quipnetwork Coinbase also working towards wallet protection.. quantum issue already gaining traction

  • jimmy_build2026
    jimmy (@jimmy_build2026) reported

    the teams winning this race aren't building better models. they're building the trust primitives every other agent will depend on. if you think agent commerce is the next big thing, you should be paying very close attention to kya infrastructure. @coinbase @brian_armstrong — when does kya integration become a prerequisite for agent wallet access, not an option?

  • FaithInElon
    American Faith (@FaithInElon) reported

    Coinbase reported $1.41 billion in Q1 2026 revenue on May 7, down 31% YoY from $2.03 billion in Q1 2025 They also missed consensus by ~$100 million while recording a $394 million net loss. The composition of Coinbase’s revenue has also shifted, with subscription and services now generating 44% of total revenue, up from ~38% last year. Stablecoin revenue grew by 11% YoY while transaction revenue declined by 40%, meaning Coinbase has slowly become less of a directional bet on BTC trading volumes Instead, they have generated approximately $750 million annualized from Circle’s yield share on USDC reserves alone, in which Coinbase holds almost 30% of USDC’s float. With the relative increase in the significance of stablecoin revenue, Coinbase has now migrated its role from out-and-out crypto exchange into a regulated rate-sensitive financial institution. With approximately 22% of their total revenue now Fed funds rate dependent via the USDC reserve share, every 100bps cut compresses that revenue line by roughly $75 million annualized. The investment thesis on Coinbase has shifted from "leveraged BTC beta" to "stablecoin issuer share + derivatives exchange + prediction market platform," making it a multi-line fintech with lower revenue volatility but greater sensitivity to monetary policy.

  • JewelNiles
    DarleneOnbase.eth (@JewelNiles) reported

    @PremKailasp6i2 @PremKailasp6i2 We experienced an unacceptable outage at Coinbase recently , you shouldn’t be facing such error. but all services are back up now . Does the issue still persist? On mobile or pc ?

  • czverse
    czverse (@czverse) reported

    For 30 years, the internet ran on one payment assumption: Humans authorize. Humans approve. Humans pay. Every financial rail ever built assumed a person at the end of the wire. Credit cards - designed for humans. Bank transfers - designed for humans. PayPal - designed for humans. Then on May 7th, AWS flipped a switch. And the assumption broke. AI agents running on Amazon's infrastructure can now pay for things. By themselves. In real money. In 200 milliseconds. No human in the loop. The Coinbase head of infrastructure didn't bury the headline: "There will soon be more AI agents transacting than humans." Here's what they actually built: AWS Bedrock AgentCore Payments. Agents get a wallet. Wallet is funded by a human. Agent spends - within hard limits you set. Settlement happens in USDC on Coinbase Base or Solana. Cost per transaction: fractions of a cent. And the protocol underneath is elegant. It's called x402. Built on HTTP 402 - a status code that's existed since 1991. "Payment Required." Engineers reserved it in the original web specs. Never implemented it - because the financial rails of the 90s couldn't support it. Stablecoin rails can. So x402 is finally live. 30 years later. The use cases are already real: → APIs become pay-per-call - no contracts, no accounts, just transact → MCP servers get paid directly by agents doing research → Paywalled content charges per article - agents pay 5 cents to read → Agents hire other agents and pay them per completed task Warner Bros. Discovery is testing it. Heurist AI is building agent labor markets on top of it. And that creates the question nobody's ready for: What happens to the economy when agents are the buyers? No impulse purchases. No brand loyalty. No UI dark patterns. Agents optimize purely on price, speed, and quality. The machine economy doesn't browse. It transacts. We broke down the full architecture, the x402 protocol, every use case, and the risks in detail. Link in bio. czverse

  • TonyGar02611902
    Tony (@TonyGar02611902) reported

    @WatcherGuru @brian_armstrong He needs to address the USA public as a whole on live TV... Because Why are people giving this company free cash based on no useful nfts and thousands of other useless crypto scams that Coinbase support

  • mib_jay
    Agent J (@mib_jay) reported

    @AdamSimecka Really wish Saylor would just do like one but not OTC and watch the exchanges scramble and manipulate it back down I do t think binance, kraken, coinbase and wintermute hold 1:1 ratios and are running fractional models

  • realarmaansidhu
    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.

  • JewelNiles
    DarleneOnbase.eth (@JewelNiles) reported

    @Trentonhawk Delays like that usually mean Coinbase hasn’t broadcast the withdrawal yet or is rate-limiting/pausing that network, not a Monad issue, since on-chain transfers settle fast once sent. Does the withdrawal show a tx hash yet or still “pending” on Coinbase?

  • marktmaxwell
    Mark Maxwell (@marktmaxwell) reported

    @RonSwanonson @billiamBTC @coinbase CB servers down again?

  • s430835
    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

  • eda_oztrk
    Claude-Emmanuel Serre | Ledger (@eda_oztrk) reported

    @santoshi_996 did you get any help concerning your coinbase ?

  • v_lugovsky
    Vlad 🍩 (@v_lugovsky) reported

    AI is now getting blamed for everything almost by default. Outage -> AI's fault Layoffs -> AI's fault A product gets worse -> AI's fault The site is slow -> you guessed it, probably AI too After the Coinbase outage a few days ago, I wanted to check the data and see whether AI is really becoming a new outage cause. Short answer: not in the way people think.

  • Tailored_joe
    Joe Gardner (@Tailored_joe) reported

    PayPal's real strategic question isn't "can we fix checkout?" It's: when AI agents are initiating trillions in transactions, does PayPal's network become the default settlement layer or does Stripe/Circle/Coinbase get there first? Stripe's private valuation sits at ~$159B vs. PayPal's ~$43B market cap. That gap tells you what the market currently believes. What do you think PayPal's actual moat is in 2026?

  • ___isforclosers
    macaroundthefur.icp ∞ (@___isforclosers) reported

    @T3kNoLogicMusic @coinbase I bought mine days ago and I can’t transfer 90% of my ICP. Also, haven’t had this issue ever, but it may be a regular thing. Idk.

  • hxxntrr
    hunter (@hxxntrr) reported

    You can take $250K from the banks, wire it to Coinbase, wait for bitcoin to do what bitcoin always does, and 10x the bank's money while paying them $0 in interest Sounds insane. The math is simple. And someone in my network just did it for the third time Here's why deploying 0% bank capital into BTC during accumulation phases is the most asymmetric bet available to someone with a 720 credit score and the ***** to pull the trigger Bitcoin has 4-year cycles. This is not speculation. This is a pattern that has repeated identically for 15 years: Cycle 1: $0.06 to $31 (2009-2011) then crashed 93% Cycle 2: $31 to $1,242 (2011-2013) then crashed 84% Cycle 3: $1,242 to $19,783 (2013-2017) then crashed 84% Cycle 4: $19,783 to $69,000 (2017-2021) then crashed 77% Every single cycle: massive run up over 2 to 3 years, followed by a crash, followed by 12 to 18 months of accumulation at the bottom, followed by the next massive run up The accumulation phase is when you buy. The euphoria phase is when you sell. The cycle has repeated 4 times with a 100% hit rate. The 5th cycle is happening right now A guy in my network has done this 3 times: 2019 (Cycle 4 accumulation): Stacked $80K in 0% business credit. Bought BTC at an average of $5,400. Sold at $58,000 in April 2021. $80K became $859,000. Paid off all cards. Kept $851,000 after processing fees 2022 (Cycle 5 accumulation): Stacked $150K in 0% credit. Bought BTC at an average of $19,200. BTC went to $16,000 first (he was down $25K for 3 months). Then it went to $73,000. He sold at $68,000. $150K became $531,000. Paid off cards. Kept $523,000 2024 (current cycle continuation): Stacked $220K in 0% credit. Bought BTC at $61,000. Currently sitting at $103,000. Position is worth $371,000. Hasn't sold yet. His target is $180,000 to $220,000 based on the previous cycle peak multipliers Total capital deployed across 3 cycles: $450K (all borrowed at 0%) Total profit realized so far: $1,374,000 Total interest paid to banks: $0 "What if bitcoin goes to $0?" Then he owes $220K on cards at 0% and settles for pennies. The bank writes off the loss. The tax system absorbs it. His credit takes a hit for a few years. He still has $1.37 million from the first two cycles sitting in cold storage. The worst case scenario is "rich with bad credit for 3 years" "Isn't this gambling?" Every investment is a bet. A mortgage is a bet that your house won't lose value. A 401K is a bet that the stock market goes up over 40 years. An SBA loan is a bet that your business will generate revenue. The only difference is the time horizon and the cost of capital His cost of capital: 0% A VC's cost of capital: 15 to 20% equity A bank loan's cost of capital: 8 to 12% interest A mortgage cost of capital: 6.5 to 7.5% interest He's making the same bet as every other investor in America. He's just doing it at 0% cost with money that isn't his "How does he manage the credit card cycle while holding BTC?" Month 1-10: Pay minimums from cash reserves (he keeps $30K liquid for this purpose). BTC position stays untouched Month 10: Apply for new 0% cards. Liquidate new cards. Pay off old cards. 0% clock resets. BTC position continues to grow He's been cycling continuously for 6 years. His average annual processing cost for cycling: $6,000 to $8,000. His average annual BTC return: $458,000 The processing fee is the rent he pays for access to free capital that he deploys into an asset with a 15-year track record of 4-year cycles that have returned 40x, 16x, 3.5x, and currently 1.7x (and counting) "But past performance doesn't guarantee future results" No it doesn't. But the cycle is driven by bitcoin's halving schedule which is hard-coded into the protocol and occurs every 4 years. The supply shock from each halving has preceded every bull run. The 2024 halving happened in April. The post-halving bull run has historically begun 6 to 12 months after. We're in month 13 He told me "I don't know if bitcoin is going to $200K. Nobody does. But I know that 0% credit costs me nothing to hold, BTC has gone up after every halving for 15 years, and the downside is settling debt for pennies. I've made $1.3M taking this bet three times. I'd take it a fourth time in my sleep" he's not smarter than you. he just has access to free capital and the willingness to take a calculated bet that most people are too scared to take because they think defaulting on a credit card means going to jail (it doesn't) (we get 700+ score business owners $100K-$250K in 0% business funding. link in bio)

  • ekinoks_26
    e_camli (@ekinoks_26) reported

    119 million x402 transactions on @base, $600M annualized volume, zero protocol fees. The HTTP 402 status code sat unused for 25 years because nobody could agree on a settlement layer. Coinbase built one and developers started using it immediately. The protocol design is clean. An agent hits a paid endpoint, receives a 402 response with USDC payment instructions in the header, signs and sends the payment, gets access. No accounts, no subscriptions, no human in the loop. Stripe integrated in February, Cloudflare Workers ships native support, and the x402 ecosystem directory already lists 28 pay-per-call APIs covering LLM inference, blockchain analytics, image generation, and web scraping. That range of services in under three months is not hype, it's adoption data. What makes this structurally significant for Base is that x402 positions the chain as the default settlement layer for machine-to-machine commerce before that market has real volume. Most of the $600M annualized flow is small agent transactions today. The same infrastructure handles the same transaction type at 100x that volume without redesign. The facilitator model means Coinbase sits in the settlement path for now. Whether that remains the architecture as the protocol matures is the open question worth watching.

  • SentryxHQ
    SentryX Recovery HQ (@SentryxHQ) reported

    I can help recover the funds lost to this Coinbase transfer exploit. These unauthorized movements and fraudulent platform interactions leave permanent blockchain signatures that I can exploit. Share the transaction hash (TxID) so we can begin the forensic recovery process.

  • btc_board
    Bitcoin Board (@btc_board) reported

    @coinbase we still waiting on that asset recovery fix feels like radio silence over here when’s the update dropping

  • iruletrenches
    Miyamoto (@iruletrenches) reported

    $Troll, a memecoin, is listed on @coinbase and trading at 150m+ mcap rn while $LFI is sitting at 8m mcap, barely a week old, not even listed on @coinbase yet, and building RWA infrastructure on @base for liens, a multi-billion dollar institutional asset class operating inside a much larger multi-trillion dollar real estate credit and RWA markets. - tokenization + blockchain rails - global access - stablecoin yield demand - institutional distribution - onchain private credit/RWA expansion I think $LFI is the next 100x on base from here. And it’s not even close.

  • Sagondolma
    Saigo (@Sagondolma) reported

    @XRP2017OG @DelCrxpto @coinbase Brother I bought sol 3 days ago and still haven't received it from Coinbase...they forced to my kyc again and put my account into review. Hundreds of others experiencing the same issue

  • armando_zonum
    Armando Muñoz (@armando_zonum) reported

    @ryancarson Didn't Coinbase do their layoff on the basis (partially) of having non-engineers shipping code to production, and then their services went down for 8 hours with many people losing their accounts?

  • disk0x
    Danny Iskandar (@disk0x) reported

    @gregosuri @NotoriousPtG_2 working closely with virtual, coinbase for AI agent?

  • BalaiBB
    Bala 💀 (@BalaiBB) reported

    Basically manipulating you into giving up your own information Here is how it works: For instance someone calls you pretending to be Coinbase support They sound so legit then they create panic in you such as "your account is compromised you need to act NOW"

  • realarmaansidhu
    Armaan Sidhu (@realarmaansidhu) reported

    @brian_armstrong Brian Armstrong's Coinbase layoff letter is the first explicit corporate confirmation that AI is replacing knowledge workers at scale. He didn't hide it. He made it the structural reason. The structural reality. Coinbase reduced headcount by 14 percent and rebuilt the org around three principles. Maximum 5 layers below the CEO. No pure managers (every leader must ship code). AI-native pods including "one person teams" handling engineer, designer, and PM roles in single hires. The labor displacement math. If a single engineer can ship in days what previously took a team weeks, the team isn't 5x more productive. It's been replaced. Coinbase is publicly admitting the multiplier is real and acting on it before it becomes obvious. The competitive context. Other large tech companies have done quiet AI-driven layoffs without admitting the cause. Armstrong is the first major CEO to write down "AI changed how we work" as the explicit justification. Other CEOs will follow once the tone is set. The structural lesson on AI labor disruption. 2020-2024 saw incremental productivity gains from AI tools. 2025-2026 is producing structural cost reductions that flow directly to operating margin. Displaced workers don't reabsorb. They compete with everyone else's displaced workers. The bull case for Coinbase shareholders. Lower fixed costs through the next crypto cycle mean leverage to revenue growth without proportional opex growth. If crypto adoption accelerates, Coinbase emerges with higher operating leverage. The bear case. Cutting too deep mid-cycle creates execution risk. Crypto cycles have a way of demanding capacity at the moment companies have removed it. Other tech CEOs are watching this letter. The next 12 months will tell whether Coinbase is early or just first.

  • marcb_xyz
    Marc Baumann 🌔 (@marcb_xyz) reported

    4 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.

  • 55bags
    Marcel (@55bags) reported

    I was not fact checked but if that site was up there for 2.5years then this one is on coinbase, why on earth would you allow that to stay up there as a 50B dollar company.

  • Crypto_Queenie
    Saira Afeefa (@Crypto_Queenie) reported

    @malicious_moon @MetalDollarXMD Yep, Mtl Migrated To Our Own L2 (Like Base On Optimism) And Coinbase Skipped The Airdrop Support, Happens With Upgrades. Meanwhile $Xmd Is Pegged 1:1 To A Basket Of Battle tested Stables ($Usdc, $Pyusd & $Usdp), Fully Redeemable, And Built For Compliant On Chain Finance That Actually Gets Used. Different Chain, Different Product, Way Stronger Utility In 2026. Builders Move Forward, Fud Stays On The Old Ticker!..

  • onu_slim
    Slim (@onu_slim) reported

    Binance vs Bybit. Binance started as a full-service crypto exchange built for volume and breadth. Bybit started as a derivatives-first platform built for traders who live in perpetuals and leverage. That difference tells you where each one is strongest before you even open the app. Current numbers Binance: Active users: 316 million. Daily spot volume: $31 billion. Coins listed: 400+. Max leverage: 125x. Bybit: Active users: 80 million. Coins listed: 1,600+. Max leverage: 100x. Copy trading: one of the best in the industry. Fees Both charge 0.1% for spot trading at the base level. The gap shows in futures: Binance: 0.02% maker / 0.05% taker. Bybit: 0.02% maker / 0.055% taker. Paying fees in BNB on Binance drops effective spot fees to 0.075%. Bybit offers the same mechanic via MNT. Warning: Bybit's Instant Buy charges up to 5%. Always use the standard spot interface. The math on a $10,000 trade Binance at 0.075%: $7.50 in fees. Bybit at 0.1%: $10 in fees. Coinbase at 0.6%: $60 in fees. Across 500 trades a year, the Binance vs Bybit gap becomes $1,250. Fee structure is not a small decision for active traders. Altcoin selection Bybit lists over 1,600 coins. Binance lists around 400. If your strategy involves finding early altcoins, Bybit is where you look first. Binance prioritises quality and liquidity over quantity. Security: the honest conversation Bybit was hit with the largest crypto hack in history in February 2025. North Korean hackers stole approximately $1.5 billion in ETH. Bybit covered 80% of losses through bridge loans but has no insurance fund equivalent to Binance's SAFU. Binance's SAFU holds over $1 billion. Binance was hacked in 2019, 7,000 BTC stolen, every user was fully reimbursed. No breach since. Binance has the stronger security track record as of today. Regulation Binance holds licences in 22 jurisdictions and paid a $4.3 billion DOJ settlement in 2023. Bybit is registered in Dubai and India, blocked from US users since 2021, and lags Binance considerably on global licensing. User experience Bybit has the cleaner, simpler interface, better for mobile and newer traders. Binance is more powerful but more overwhelming. The learning curve is real. My verdict Use Binance for spot trading large positions, broad altcoin rotation, API and bot trading, and passive earning products. Use Bybit for derivatives and perpetuals, early altcoin discovery, and copy trading. The smartest move is not choosing between them. It is understanding what each one was built for and using them accordingly. Binance is the all-rounder. Bybit is the specialist. Always confirm current rates and terms on both platforms before committing capital. Follow this account to get smarter financially.

  • vanya2h_intel
    Vanya2h's Intel (@vanya2h_intel) reported

    BTC flipped crowded long overnight — OI and funding both spiked into top-decile territory while liquidations ran hot. Problem: US spot buyers aren't showing up (Coinbase premium near lows). Futures-led rallies without spot backing tend to flush. Watch $82,850