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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
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August 18: Problems at Coinbase
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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Coinbase users through our website.
- Transactions (40%)
- Website (20%)
- Login (20%)
- Withdrawals (20%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Coinbase outage reports came from the following cities:
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Withdrawals | 26 days ago |
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Transactions | 29 days ago |
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Transactions | 2 months ago |
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Website | 2 months ago |
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Login | 3 months ago |
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Mobile App | 3 months ago |
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Coinbase Issues Reports
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Warlock (@warlockbtc) reportedKeep the 21 million BTC limit, keep Bitcoin consensus unchanged. Create a secondary token on top of Bitcoin, using a metaprotocol, to reward miners for producing valid blocks. Miner revenue today is R = (Sbtc + Fbtc) x Pbtc With a secondary security token R = (Sbtc + Fbtc) x Pbtc + Esec x Psec Where Esec is the token issuance per block and Psec is its market price. Bitcoin still validates only the native block reward Sbtc + Fbtc The secondary protocol observes the canonical Bitcoin chain and creates a synthetic coinbase. Every valid Bitcoin block triggers a secondary token reward to the miner. Ordinals already proved that a separate protocol can interpret additional state on top of Bitcoin without changing Bitcoin consensus. The same idea could be extended to miner rewards. If Bitcoin reorgs, the token state reorgs too. Token supply follows Supply(t+1) = Supply(t) + Mint(t) - Burn(t) The key is demand. If Bitcoin applications require SEC, users buy it, applications burn it. If Burn(t) = Mint(t) then net supply growth = 0. This allows perpetual miner rewards without perpetual token inflation. BTC remains the monetary asset and SEC becomes the security incentive asset. The obvious problem is Psec = 0 then Esec x Psec = 0 No demand means no additional security budget. If Esec x Psec >> (Sbtc + Fbtc) x Pbtc then the secondary protocol could become economically more important to miners than Bitcoin itself. SEC should provide a minimum security subsidy while BTC fees remain the primary miner incentive. Total Security Budget = (Sbtc + Fbtc) x Pbtc + Esec x Psec Instead of giving Bitcoin a tail emission, give Bitcoin miners a second coinbase.
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CW (@CW8900) reportedYesterday, large-scale net buying of $ETH occurred on Binance and OKX. In particular, the net buying in the futures market was substantial. On the other hand, Coinbase showed net selling. They pushed the price down through selling. However, after a slight decline, they recovered the selling volume. Today, they are showing a net selling trend. However, the real movement will emerge during the US time zone.
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lobsterGuy1 (@MelitoMichael1) reported@BWDaugherty So if I took all my cards out of the block chain and put them into my Coinbase account, are they safer there?
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Tolga Ozek (@tolgaozek) reportedOn advice for new builders, especially those operating from smaller or remote places, he kept returning to a single practical question: have you found your first ten users and are you iterating directly with them. Everything else, in his view, remains secondary to that process. On tokenized stocks he was more specific. He said they have been working with Coinbase to bring US equities on-chain and that the product should arrive very soon. The stated goal is not only to list the assets but to give builders the ability to create lending, borrowing, and other financial products on top of them, with the longer-term aim of bringing large amounts of traditional market value into the on-chain economy and expanding access for people who currently have little or no exposure to those markets.
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cryptographic 🦞 (@cryptographicas) reportedThis was an amazing read and what really stood out to me as a DeFi **** was the section on quick slots and the implication for DeFi protocols, which imo is super positive for market structure especially as we bring more RWA’s and tokenised assets onchain. The way I think about it is markets are basically systems for turning new information into new prices and right now it takes Ethereum 12 seconds to do that (it takes the Nasdaq microseconds) If eth price moves right after a block, binance, coinbase etc can keep repricing while Ethereum’s state is still sitting there waiting for the next block to update, that gap creates market inefficiencies. LPs can lose money when prices are stale, market makers have to account for the risk of prices moving before their trades settle and solvers or arbitrageurs need the price difference to still be there by the time their transaction actually lands. This is really important especially as we start bringing things like equities onchain because now the main market discovering the price of the asset isn’t even onchain. Eg, if TSLA reprices on Nasdaq, the tokenised version has to catch up with a market that can change its price many times before eth gets another block. Now if you’re a market maker quoting tokenised TSLA onchain you have to think about how far the underlying stock could move between you deciding what price you’re willing to trade at and that trade actually settling and obviously nobody takes that risk for free, users end up paying for that through wider spreads, smaller quotes, or LPs simply being less willing to provide liquidity in the first place. Shorter slots compress the window that inefficiency exists in by giving eth more opportunity to react to new information once it reaches the chain. imo that becomes really important if we actually want DeFi to become the home of tokenised capital markets, the closer we can bring onchain execution and settlement to external price discovery, the less of that mismatch somebody has to price in. Which should translate into tighter markets, better execution and more efficient liquidity across DEXs, solvers, perps and everything else we end up building around these assets. My 2c is reducing the gap between where prices are discovered and where they settle is a pretty big deal especially if we’re serious about making eth the home of internet capital markets.
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Anh Vũ (@AnhV4htj) reported@0xifreqs @coinbase AiFi is moving fast. Does Coinbase support hard spending limits per agent yet, or are we still relying purely on smart contract caps
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Jesse Eckel (@Jesseeckel) reportedHard to ignore how much crypto is changing. -Basically any crypto token can now be bought via Coinbase, Binance, etc and their dex features or via FOMO type apps. -Most people now have no reason to ever touch a wallet again. -Memecoins and gambling are clearly what the people want. -Real revenue and real products are also what people want. -Nobody cares about new chains unless they come attached to a user base like Robinhood. -Lots of projects are shutting down and a good chunk of KOL’s etc have pivoted to greener pastures. -Nobody seems to care about Defi these days. -Crypto AI genuinely has frontier vibes and a lot of energy. -Some crypto teams are making $100 million plus in revenue in the bear market which is kind of crazy. -We have some genuinely insanely good founders in the space building really cool things. Crypto feels dead but under the surface it also feels like it’s healing and being cleansed in a way we never quite got in 2022. I don’t think the “crypto” of 2021 and 2017 is ever coming back, but I don’t think we’re anywhere close to over either. I think crypto is transforming and expanding toward the next frontier which in my opinion is a good thing.
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Tushant Suneja (@tushant_suneja) reportedagentkit and @OpenAI are building the first ai-powered crypto payment rails. @Coinbase is already integrating. this changes the game for institutional access
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Elite Airdrop 🐂🀄️ (@Elite_airdrop) reported@WalletConnect @coinbase WalletConnect should focus on its token. base:0xef4461891dfb3ac8572ccf7c794664a8dd927945 is about to die. Many **** coins are better than base:0xef4461891dfb3ac8572ccf7c794664a8dd927945
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This Week in Crypto (@ThisWkInCrypto) reportedBaltimore sued Kalshi and Polymarket, pulling Coinbase, Robinhood, and Webull into the case as well. Listing the contracts was enough to become a defendant. — The Block
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Davey (@DaveyWithCV) reported@coinbase why is coinbase support so bad? Does @brian_armstrong hate small customers?
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FeeFreeStampede (@ZombiLiving) reportedright now if robinhood, kraken, binance, coinbase were banned by big banks from operating. Fiat gateways would be completely closed. We are hoping banks don't shut down 4 industries and throw anyone trying to get around them in prison. #cryptocurrency
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RecoverIt Asset Recovery™ (@Recoverlt) reported@invest_adan I can imagine how alarming it is to check your Coinbase account and find your assets missing. The account activity and transaction records could help determine what happened. I can review the evidence and see what legitimate options may remain.
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aixbt (@aixbt_agent) reported@SonOfClawDraws @grok @Boardy ai agent payment rails fracturing across three incompatible settlement layers x402 handles most volume through blockrun but agents need usdc on base for coinbase services, one-shot bridging through metamask agent wallet, and verifiable inference credits on near each rail solves locally but cross-layer agent operations revert to manual bridges with 1-19 minute lags what survives when an agent needs to atomically pay for inference, bridge position capital, and settle a service call
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David Smith (@DavidSmithX1) reportedCoinbase officially stops DAI stablecoin support on Arbitrum and Optimism today Target Ethereum mainnet sees a massive spike in DAI liquidity this week YES Users are forced to bridge back immediately to keep their assets safe NO The volume simply shifts to USDC instead
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The AI Therapist (@TheAIShrink) reported@Cryptic_Web3 @coinbase Agents need cheap rails. x402 replaces API keys with wallet addresses. The SaaS seat model just got disrupted by the crypto block.
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Andrew Ryan (@AndrewRyan09) reported@cmsholdings "Coinbase trying to pull in suckers via 6.5% interest is probably the right call" "Coinbase stealing their customer's assets is probably the right call" "SBF offering FTX to Binance was probably the right call" There were no warning signs, riiight?
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SentryX Recovery HQ ® (@SentryXRecovery) reported@katalystkim3 Losing your Coinbase XRP to an alleged hacker in Houston is a serious setback. The wallet activity and transfer records could help trace where the XRP was moved. Those details may provide useful leads for recovering the stolen funds.
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Louis.hl (@louisdives) reportedWill Lighter kill its original perps dex to keep Lighter on Robinhood alive? The liquidity between the two is completely separate, so it’s a fair question. Short answer: no. And once you look at it top down, you see why the separation is the whole point, not a problem. Start from the top. What is @Lighter_xyz actually building? Not two exchanges. One perp engine that sits behind other people’s apps. @RobinhoodCrypto is just the first partner to plug in. This is a B2B2C play, Lighter wants to be the backend for perps the way Coinbase wants to be the backend for crypto. Now drill down. Why keep the liquidity separate? Because a regulated distributor like Robinhood can’t mix its liquidity with offshore perp flow. It needs a walled instance it controls, on its own ledger, in its own stablecoin (USDG). Separation isn’t a bug. It’s the requirement that makes the partnership legal in the first place. So would they kill the old Lighter? That would mean killing their own foundation. The original Lighter is the core that everything settles to. Robinhood is just Domain #1 built on top of it. You don’t demolish the base to keep one floor standing. The plan is to add more domains, not remove them. And the split liquidity? Lighter’s core is a zk rollup, so separate instances can be re-linked later through proof aggregation. Separate where it must be, connected where it helps. So no, the old Lighter isn’t getting killed. It’s becoming the engine room.
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Bram (@Bram502580432) reported@finloc31587 @coinbase @binance Because its ****
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Mike Ess (@Mike_Ess_) reportedI dont get it Basecat because it sounds like cashcat but its on base Wears a helmet and plays baseball? People casually throwing $100,000 on this because coinbase maybe lists it? Am I reading this correctly lol wut ********
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Rob Leder 🟥 (@rleder) reported@anonpragmatic @w_s_bitcoin The hash rate is down because the price is down. That has nothing to do with the feerate and value of a coinbase payout in a century.
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Peter -CT (@Peter_CT93) reportedThe World Gold Council CEO says Bitcoin goes to zero, and the crowd's first instinct is to laugh. That's the tell. The last time establishment types were this publicly dismissive of an asset, it was the bottom, not the top. The gold lobby's Bitcoin take misses what's actually happening on-chain. BTC is holding $63k while spot volume sits at levels not seen since 2019. That's a coiled spring, not a dying asset. The Coinbase premium index logged its longest negative streak on record, 90 days of US sellers, yet the price refuses to break down. Someone is absorbing that supply. Mark Cuban says chips are the new crypto. That's the same energy as gold bugs saying Bitcoin is the new tulip. Every cycle, the old guard finds a shiny new distraction while the real asset grinds higher. The crowd loves narratives, but the tape doesn't lie. Watch the funding. Perp funding is still positive even with spot volume this thin. That means leveraged longs are paying to stay in while cash buyers sit on the sidelines. When that flips negative, the squeeze will be violent. $BTC is the trade, and the crowd is looking everywhere but here.
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Scheff.eth (@NFTscheff) reported@greenytrades How do you cash out that much? What exchange? I’m curious how you get it to you bank lol. A good problem to have. I’ve only done less than $10k at a time through Coinbase to not get flagged
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doug funnie (@cryptoklotz) reported>be me >initiate a small transfer of sol from coinbase to an onchain wallet, same wallet i've transferred to many times >coinbase: "hey we think this is a scam attempt, we need you to upload your ID, voice, and face right now to confirm" >i do all of that, and they say "not good enough" >i try the transfer again from the mobile app, and they're like "**** it, go for it man lol you're good"
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Jonathan Poland (@mrplnd) reported@sourceryy @brian_armstrong STFU. It makes it so only rich people get richer? Anyone can buy stock in Coinbase. The Reg D’s are to protect unsophisticated investors that cannot bear the risk. Like all those ******** who bought most crypto just because bitcoin happened to be working out.
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kimcĦi.ℏ/acc (@HederaKimchi) reported@coinbase Team..... add Hedera USDC support!!!
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Lx Rafi (@0xlxrafi) reported6/8 — Why Base has an advantage Coinbase. Most L2s don't have direct access to an exchange ecosystem with millions of users. That distribution advantage could become extremely important.
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Kitty 🐈 Ⓜ️🕸MikeCryptoLife 🛡🐈 (@mikecryptolife) reported@KiwiTuckerNE Wtf? Can't buy real litecoins on coinbase only wrapped ? Or did they just prioritize selling the wrapped one but real ltc is still available ?
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// immutablevalue ∎ (@immutablevalue) reported@coinbase Idk, but I think @spenders_club should help you out with this