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Coinbase Issues Reports

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  PulseOne (@Pulseone_com) reported 3 minutes ago

  Coinbase blames AWS. AWS blames the internet. Traders blame Coinbase. Nobody blames the fact that the biggest US exchange runs on someone else's server.

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  Ben (@Beason_Benjamin) reported 4 minutes ago

  @CyberScamAmct Coinbase doesn’t support this token, I transferred them to a wallet and the transfer hasn’t gone through

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  Saracen ✞ (@Bitcoinfinity) reported 4 minutes ago

  @brian_armstrong Coinbase down. Bitcoin still working. The difference between centralised shitcoin casinos, and decentralised money networks.

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  big.beard.yells.alot (@bigbeardyells) reported 5 minutes ago

  @adamscochran @coinbase 100% earned the outage

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  Henryk Sarat (@henryksarat) reported 5 minutes ago

  @haiyami9x @aaalexhl It might look like Coinbase is just tokens and trading, but there's way more under the hood. High level brain dump from my time in the industry and what I know they're working on: * Coinbase has 12 product lines doing $100M+ in revenue. That's just the ones above $100M. To get there, a ton of products failed or got absorbed along the way. Plenty of tech debt as a result. Impressive that some became breakout hits like this. Start-ups fail to even find any PMF and fizzle out. * They offer staking to custody customers. Adding fault-resistant staking for a new chain is not trivial. You really don't want enterprise clients getting slashed. Entire companies exist just for this (Kiln, Figment, etc). * Enterprise-grade custody is a huge wedge for them and they win a lot of deals. The wallet infra alone is brutal from a security standpoint. Whole companies do only this: BitGo, Fireblocks, Anchorage, Paxos. * Bank connectivity is constantly changing. Adds, removals, rail swaps, never ends. * AML tooling has to keep evolving. The threat landscape and regulatory expectations move every quarter. * Base started on the OP Stack with Optimism's help since Coinbase didn't have that expertise in-house. They've since moved off it and are doing their own L2 work. Maintaining that infra and growing a chain ecosystem is capital intensive and takes deep expertise. Look at what Solana has to do just to keep their ecosystem running. Not easy. * Base wallet needs constant updates and a real differentiator story. Entire companies do only wallets: Phantom, Consensys, etc. * Every new asset or chain needs resilient RPC infra to support custody, staking, and trading. Coinbase runs their own. Entire companies do only RPC: Alchemy, Helius, Infura, QuickNode. When I was at Paxos, certain RPC providers didn't have certain chains and were adding new ones monthly. Keeping up with the full ecosystem is very hard. * Signing infra has to be secure and scalable. This is the most sensitive part of the whole company and gets harder with every new chain since each one has its own quirks and security considerations. * Crypto-as-a-service. They power PNC, Webull, and 200+ other institutions. Whole companies do only this (Zero Hash, Paxos). * Stablecoin payment rails. Net new initiative, brand new integrations. * Coinbase membership is a constantly evolving product. Hard to get the value/cost balance right. I worked on Lyft Pink and the considerations were endless. As rideshare, bikes, scooters, and transit evolved, we constantly reshaped what was offered. One painful example: figuring out Chase member benefits and integrating Lyft and Chase systems so the 10x points counted correctly, plus easy onboarding and offboarding for cardholders. Other partner perks came and went over time (Grubhub, DoorDash, Amazon). Never ending. * I didn't touch security (constant threats and attack vectors), data (data is ever evolving and tooling changes). * I didn't even touch non-engineering teams and the regulatory landscape always changing which requires engineering system changes. * Didn't talk about the changing landscape of prediction markets, perps, and tokenized stocks which is a whole different story. * Left out everything the possibility of agentic payments and that whole industry that we don't even know what it could look like. It's still an unsolved problem. Very big sector for crypto and stablecoins. * Plus everything else: build tools, onboarding, compliance, threat monitoring, dev tooling, SDKs, ecosystem programs, etc. Not going deeper since this is already long. Another data point. When I led the engineering launch of USDL at Paxos, I coordinated across 8+ engineering teams plus security and data. We built net new infra. Going from a simple stablecoin to a yield-bearing stablecoin sounds trivial but it wasn't. The systems were built around a simple ERC20 stablecoin because that's what Paxos offered at the time, so the assumptions baked in everywhere had to be reworked. the regulatory landscape was constantly changing which added thrash to our requirements on the engineering side. My PM counterpart did the same on the non-eng side, leading 8+ teams (legal, product, marketing, BD, etc). What the team pulled off in 1-2 quarters was honestly pretty wild. One more point I’ll push back on is the idea that they should stop investing in the business and just “collect cash.” At that point, you’re effectively turning the company into a liquidating asset rather than an operating one. The stock price isn’t just a reflection of current earnings, it’s the market’s estimate of the company’s future cash flows over a given time horizon, discounted back to today. If a company stops reinvesting, those expected future cash flows flatten or decline, and the valuation typically compresses toward a low-growth or bond-like multiple, at which point investors would likely prefer safer fixed income like Treasuries. You also lose the ability to attract talent and sustain competitiveness, which usually leads to stagnation and eventual displacement by more innovative players.

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  Loren HODL (@LorenHodl) reported 7 minutes ago

  Just another reminder to GET YOUR BITCIN OFF EXCHANGES! There was a significant outage earlier today on Coinbase (May 8, 2026) caused by an AWS data center issue (thermal event in US-East-1). It affected trading across platforms starting around 1:56 a.m. UTC and was resolved by around 7:49 a.m. UTC. Coinbase switched to cancel-only and auction modes during the disruption, and funds remained safe.

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  FarmerJoe 🌎☮️ (@FarmerJoe0x) reported 11 minutes ago

  @udiWertheimer @mdudas @coinbase I'm not quite sure why we think agents will pay eachother millions of times a day when we as humans don't transact this way. If AGI / agents are meant to help solve problems then they are likely to mimic existing human transaction patterns and not spam.

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  Sajid Mehmood (@smehmood) reported 17 minutes ago

  @sanjeevpai @GergelyOrosz Disagree. 1. It's much cheaper (in $$$ and engineering cost) for Netflix to have multi-region resilience because their workload is effectively read-only. Trading on Coinbase needs to be transactional. Consistency >>> Availability for Coinbase, and the reverse for Netflix 2. You can opine on what "ought" to be the case, but the business reality is about what happens to demand when a service is down. For Coinbase, when trading is down, the demand *time* shifts – trades you would've done during the downtime are instead done when it's back up. For Netflix, when streaming is down, demand shifts to competitors. It is counter-intuitive perhaps, but availability is a higher priority for entertainment than it is for financial markets. This has always been true (OTA TV is 24/7, traditional financial markets have 17.5 hours of downtime by design.

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  musicguy.base.eth (@musicguybaseeth) reported 19 minutes ago

  @altagers @base Regarding volunteering, according to US law, Coinbase cannot have volunteers on American soil if the company operates commercially. Furthermore, no one with a good salary is suddenly going to sacrifice their time for free to do similar or different tasks for a former employer. For some time, I tried to ensure there was no volunteering at all and that everyone involved—like the ambassadors—received monthly grants to cover subscriptions or travel expenses for networking. I eventually gave up on that. It is a complex issue, and it's difficult to simply boil it down to a few sentences.

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  James (@jdelmerico) reported 21 minutes ago

  @darknes_fatigue @adamscochran @coinbase Don't follow. If you run any mission critical software and you didn't plan for failure it's on you as a business. Doesn't matter if the issue was with AWS, another cloud provider, or you self-hosting. Coinbase went down because they didn't plan for failure in this case.

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  Toby (@tobydillon) reported 24 minutes ago

  @ahitposter @coinbase was once the quickest and easiest way to buy and sell crypto, now it just seems like a liability to the space. if persistent downtime and horrible customer support become part of your brand, good luck onboarding new users.

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  krypto Klutz (@kryptoklutz) reported 25 minutes ago

  @brian_armstrong How about you keep the employees and fix Coinbase? Have an actual call center, like Fidelity. Millions of us have gotten hammered with issues that your retarded team of off-shore, Sri Lankans (or wherever they are) can't resolve. Finally we just give up. How about fixing your platform so that it does not reliably crash every time your users MOST need to transact due to extreme volatility?

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  No Bu (@NoBu33170345) reported 26 minutes ago

  @cavemanloverboy suspicious that on the day coinbase goes down solana pumps. almost like it was held down

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  0xMG (@0xM_G) reported 26 minutes ago

  𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗡: Coinbase says Amazon Web Services failures across multiple availability zones caused an extended outage, disrupting crypto trading and transfers on its platform.

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  1A GEN XER (@1A_GenXer) reported 29 minutes ago

  @coinbase I think we just want the exchange not to go down for hours.