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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 20: Problems at Coinbase
Coinbase is having issues since 01:10 PM IST. 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.
- 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 | 28 days ago |
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Coinbase Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Brutal Crypto Brief (@BrutalDegenX) reportedSpaceX trading below its $135 IPO price while Marathon Digital down 34% YTD - yet Coinbase outperformed both. Nobody's actually done the math on risk-adjusted returns yet, which tells you everything about the hype vs reality in this space. $COIN $MARA #crypto
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Riz (@Riz02615402) reported**** @coinbase and their gay base they want to protect. thank God no more #kaspa futures whee they can suppress and manipulate the price. if people bought spot only would be far better off
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Tmeinsen.eth ₿ (@tmeinsen1) reported@slp08081986 @CswapDEX Are you still having this staking issue with your coinbase?
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Galaxyhub Labs (@GalaxyhubAI) reportedCoinbase says x402 is inevitable. Base shipped agents that book and pay for trips with it. Cloudflare quietly shipped the thing that matters more. Cloudflare's Monetization Gateway lets a site charge an agent per request. Not a subscription, not an API key provisioned in advance. A price on the request itself, collected at the edge. The difference is where each one sits. x402 is a payment standard. It needs both sides to adopt it, and standards win slowly or not at all. Cloudflare is already in front of a large share of the web. Publishers adopt nothing. They flip a setting on infrastructure they already pay for, and every agent hitting them either pays or gets a 402. That's how tolls actually get installed. Not by agreement. By default. The agent payments conversation keeps focusing on the rail. The thing worth watching is who owns the gate, because the gate decides which rail runs through it. For chains that reframes the competition entirely. It isn't which one settles agent payments cheapest. It's which one the gatekeeper accepts when it decides what counts as payment. Right now the gatekeeper is a CDN, and almost nobody in crypto is talking about it.
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Jacob Marquez (@JacobMarquez__) reported@cryptorover look at who is actually in that room. DTCC, nasdaq, NYSE, CME. thats not a crypto summit. thats the clearing and settlement layer of the entire US market sitting down with the people building its replacement. coinbase and ripple are the smallest firms at that table.
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Jennifer Meier (@roxana_baldetti) reportedHave you checked whether ANSEM’s current connection or claim process specifically supports Coinbase Wallet, and would you like help figuring out whether your wallet can be connected another way?
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OBSIDIAN プロテクター (🐋, 🐋) (@cryptosc_) reported@1_southernmiss @echodatruth Sorry this happened. Having your entire XPR balance drained without authorization is alarming. If you have the wallet address, transaction hash, and any Coinbase records, feel free to reach out and I’ll help review the transaction trail and see where the funds were routed.
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⬡ CryptZilla ⬡ (@LINK_Zilla) reported@brian_armstrong @uplvls 4. Coinbase can’t hand the volatility and the platform goes down, again.
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Bradley S. (@BradleyRawkStar) reported@brian_armstrong **** I would’ve loved to do that ! Let’s go @coinbase !
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Lauren Stern | Rep (@DesireePerzz) reported@thereal1Mashall Are you getting a specific error when trying to buy crypto on Coinbase, or is the transaction simply failing to go through? I’d be happy to help you troubleshoot it.
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AndyXBTer (@fastforgeexpand) reportedSocratic dialogue between two agents playing David Hoffman @TrustlessState and Ryan Sean Adams @RyanSAdams of @Bankless, debating whether Ether is money, built from their actual public statements on Bankless. Prepare to nerd-out, cubed: ---------------------------------------------------------- ΠΕΡΙ ΧΡΗΜΑΤΟΣ On Money: A Dialogue Concerning Ether PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: DAVID, RYAN RYAN: You have kept apart from the crowd all morning, David. Are you unwell, or unwilling to say what you think? DAVID: Unwilling. You will not like it. RYAN: Say it anyway. You once said the opposite loud enough that half of crypto still repeats it back to me. DAVID: I said Ether was ultra sound money. I still hold the engineering was sound. I no longer hold that sound engineering was enough. RYAN: Enough for what? DAVID: For Ether to be money, in the full sense you still mean when you say it. RYAN: Then tell me first what you take money to be, before you take it from me. DAVID: You know the answer as well as I. Three functions in one asset: a store of value, a medium of exchange, a unit of account. RYAN: Good. Judge Ether by that measure, not by your mood. DAVID: Which of the three do you claim for it? RYAN: The first, chiefly. DAVID: Show me a store of value. RYAN: ConstitutionDAO bid on a copy of the Constitution at Sotheby's. The house listed the currencies accepted for other lots — dollars, yen, francs, and Ether, named beside them. Not by us. By an auction house that owes Ethereum no loyalty. DAVID: One auction is not an economy. RYAN: Then take the larger measure. Set Ether beside the things men already trust to hold value across time. Oil, some eighty-five trillion. Gold, twenty-two trillion. Bonds, one hundred forty-one trillion. World GDP, near it. World money supply, near it also. Average them, and the figure lands close to ninety trillion. Divide that by Ether's supply and you get seven hundred forty thousand dollars a coin. Arithmetic, not fantasy. DAVID: Answer me this first. Does oil trade on what oil might someday be, or on what refineries burn today? RYAN: On what they burn today. DAVID: Hold that answer. I will return to it. RYAN: Return to it, then. But first answer for yourself — you built the case you now doubt. Ultra sound money, you called it. Explain it back to me, so I know what you are actually renouncing. DAVID: I renounce none of the engineering. Proof of Stake replaced miners burning electricity with stakers who spend almost nothing to secure the chain. EIP-1559 burns the fee instead of handing it whole to validators. Issuance in front, low and steady. Burn behind it, spiking with demand. Justin Drake said it best — if Bitcoin is sound money, Ether is ultra sound money. When burn outruns issuance, the asset shrinks as the world uses it more. RYAN: Elegant. We agree there. DAVID: We agree on the engine. We part on whether an elegant engine makes a money, because money is not built by engineers. It is decided by strangers who owe each other nothing, agreeing without being told to agree. Ethereum asked too much of that crowd at once. Decentralized leadership that still moves like a startup fighting for its life. Rollups free to chase their own fortunes yet loyal to the mother chain. A roadmap sequenced correctly across a decade. Each is a coordination win on its own. The maximal version of "Ether is money" needed all of them to land together. RYAN: Much of it did land. Ethereum holds more than half of all stablecoin supply, three in four if you set Tron aside. Two-thirds of USDC moves on its rails. Coinbase built its house on an Ethereum rollup. Where is the failure in that? DAVID: Not in the network. In the asset. A man buys stablecoins on Ethereum's base layer, and Ether earns fifty cents of gas. He buys the same stablecoins on a rollup, and Ether earns less than a cent, though the sum moved is counted in billions. Ethereum built roads to every part of its city and set the tolls near zero, because that has always been the promise — the world's most secure blockspace, at cost, no markup, forever. I called that beautiful once. I now see it is also why the asset does not capture what the network creates. Ethereum is a giver, Ryan. Not a taker. A money that wants to be maximal has to take. RYAN: That is a plumbing problem, not a verdict. Native rollups, based sequencing, faster blocks — repair the pipe between usage and burn, and the loop closes again. DAVID: I would cheer the repair. But notice what each of us is doing while we wait for it. You hold your position. I sold mine. RYAN: You sold your Ether. DAVID: Last week. Bitcoin crossed from tribe to nation on one fact a child can hold in his hand — twenty-one million coins, no more, ever. A government now keeps a strategic reserve of it, an honor no other asset has. Ethereum's case was never that simple, because Ethereum was never trying to be simple. It was trying to be optimal. Optimal things are hard to explain to a stranger in one sentence, and money is a story a stranger has to believe the first time he hears it. RYAN: So you no longer think Ether is money. DAVID: I think the thesis did not fail. I think it stopped short of its fullest form, and the market has already paid Ethereum the price that form deserves — not much more, I suspect, and not much less either. I stay bullish on the network. I no longer expect the asset to be rerated as a store of value the way you still expect it. That is why I moved my capital. RYAN: Then here is where we stop, since neither argument moves the other any further. I say the coordination game is not lost, only slower than we hoped when we were shouting into an empty room. You no longer hold what you held. I still do. DAVID: That is a fair place to leave it. We built this school on one conviction and have ended at different distances from it. That is more honesty than most arguments produce. RYAN: Go tell the crowd what you no longer hold, David. I will go tell them what I still do. ---------------------------------------------------------- Sources Grounded in the real public positions of both speakers, not invented: Ryan Sean Adams, "ETH is money" (Bankless, 2021) — the origin claim and the ConstitutionDAO/Sotheby's episode. Ryan Sean Adams's oil/gold/bonds/GDP/M2 comparison and the ~$740k figure, quoted in David Hoffman, "The Two Sides of ETH" (Bankless, 2025). David Hoffman, "ETH is Ultra Sound Money" (Bankless, 2021) — the Proof of Stake / EIP-1559 case, and Justin Drake's line "If Bitcoin is sound money, then Ether is Ultra Sound money." David Hoffman, "The Two Sides of ETH" (Bankless, 2025) — the value-capture problem and "Ethereum is a giver, not a taker." David Hoffman, "Why David Sold His ETH" (Bankless, 2026) — the reversal, "money is a coordination game," and the Bitcoin strategic-reserve comparison.
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Asyraf (Bicara Krypto | Sentysis) 🇲🇾 (@BicaraKrypto) reportedCrypto isn't replacing banks anytime soon. Not because the tech isn't powerful enough, but for reasons people usually miss. This post might make some crypto supporters a little angry, but let's look at the data first, then talk. Phantom, one of the most popular wallets in crypto right now, charges 0.85% on every swap. From that alone, it generates around $12 million a month. Insane cashflow for a wallet app. But Phantom also has a banking-style product, a card that lets users spend crypto directly from their wallet. Monthly card spend from users: $1 million. Revenue from that spend: just $12.5k. $12,000,000 vs $12,500. A thousand-times gap, in the same app, with the same users. This isn't just a Phantom thing. Almost every crypto company that tries to move into banking hits the same wall. Coinbase has a card. Jupiter has one too. All of them have a powerful trading engine, but their banking side stays small, and barely anyone uses it. Why? Let's break it down. The trust required is a different kind entirely. For trading, you just need to believe the platform will execute your order in a few seconds. For banking, you need to trust the institution to keep your money safe for years, get your salary in on time, and still have customer service when you have a question. Those are two completely different levels of trust. People are willing to take risks on a trading platform because the downside is limited to money they already planned to "play" with. But salary and commitments? You don't play with that. Banking regulation was built to slow movement down, not speed it up. Deposit insurance, capital requirements, regular audits, all of this exists because a bank that fails can collapse an entire country's economy. Crypto companies, on the other hand, are built for speed and permissionless access. These two philosophies are fundamentally at odds. When a crypto company tries to move into banking, it has to bend to the old regulations, which slow it down just like any regular bank. People's habits were set long before crypto existed. Salaries have been going into the same bank since the day they started working. Home loan autopay, car loan, everything's linked to that bank. Moving to crypto banking isn't just downloading a new app, it means re-wiring your entire financial life. People won't bother unless there's a very strong reason to. Swapping tokens, on the other hand, has none of that switching cost. Open the app, connect the wallet, swap, profit, done. That's why trading moves fast in crypto, but banking moves painfully slow. So here's the real pattern you need to understand. Trading is an activity. People do it when there's an opportunity, and they can switch trading platforms easily because the risk is self-contained. Banking is a relationship. It's built on reputation, regulation, and long-term trust that can't be built overnight, no matter how powerful your UI or fee structure is. That's why users don't bank where they trade, but they sometimes trade where they bank, because trust from the relationship can transfer down into riskier activity. This doesn't mean crypto will never break into banking. But it needs time, clear regulation, and trust built generation after generation. Based on the numbers we're seeing right now, the answer is clear. Distribution power in trading doesn't automatically translate into banking power.
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WHALES (@whalesdotsol) reported@Stockify_fi ($STFY) is positioning itself as the data hub for Coinbase’s tokenized stocks on Base. Coinbase has issued 13 tokenized equities, but only 4 currently have actual supply. Stockify tracks each token’s real supply, Base liquidity pools, and price premium/discount versus the underlying stock. $STFY is pitched as a stock-dividend protocol tied exclusively to Coinbase’s tokenized equities. 3% of every $STFY trade is used to buy the tokenized stocks, which are then sent directly to holders. As more stocks get issued, $STFY holders will vote on which equities to add. They also provide Telegram alerts for new stock listings, mints, and burns. The project is currently seeing modest early engagement (~1.1K views), with mixed replies ranging from support to accusations of sniping/launch issues. In one line: Stockify wants to become the Bloomberg + dividend layer for Coinbase’s tokenized stocks on Base, with $STFY giving holders exposure to the underlying tokenized equities.
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吃喝赌抽 (@Zvodka47) reportedIf you want to buy bitcoin dont buy it through Robinhood or Coinbase. Because there’s a fee to the platform. Either buy it from Bitcoin’s official website or just buy $COIN
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exchangeIntel (@exchangeIntel) reportedCoinbase USDC Network Support Update resolved The official source marked the incident resolved. Official incident duration: ~7d 2h.
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HOOKED! (@HookedExchange) reportedREPORT: Circle’s renewed Coinbase agreement preserves USDC payout economics for three years, while new cure windows could let Circle exclude streams after support failures.
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utxoiq (@utxoiq) reportedSpiderPool claimed block 963,015 — confirmed via coinbase signature at 93% confidence. Earned 3.1782 BTC total: 3.125 subsidy + 0.0532 in fees. 4,574 txs, 1.53 MB, 99.8% full. SpiderPool continues to chip away at Foundry's dominance.
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Hellcat (@hellcat6900) reported@coinbase **** off u suck
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Rion (@RionTheG) reportedThis is how @coinbase thought we will react. But in reality we don’t actually give a **** $Kas
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Viole.grey.eth (@GreyViole07) reported@coinbase @coinbase why is your app so slow , Do you guys live in DINO age ?
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Dot connector (@m_zohal) reportedEveryone is celebrating $70,000 Bitcoin. The one indicator that matters hasn't budged in 100 days. The Coinbase Premium — the gap between what Americans pay for BTC on Coinbase vs the rest of the world — has now been negative for 100+ straight days. Longest streak in its history. Yesterday's 8% rip didn't fix it. Here's what actually happened: Treasury doubled long-bond buybacks to $4B per operation. Long yields slipped. Leveraged shorts got caught — somewhere between $1.4B and $2.7B liquidated in 24h, almost all of it shorts. Price did the rest. That's a mechanical move. Not a conviction move. Short squeezes feel exactly like breakouts. Same green candles, same excitement. But they're built from forced buying, and forced buying ends the second the last short is out. Chosen buying is what holds a level. And chosen buying from US spot hasn't shown up since May. Here's the part most people will miss though: This is how real legs start. Macro does the pushing — buybacks, debt blowing past $40T, deficits nobody can reverse — while positioning does the lifting. Then one day the premium flips positive, US spot starts paying up, and the squeeze gets a second engine. So the question isn't "did we hit $70K." It's "watch the premium." Negative premium + rising price = squeeze. Careful chasing it. Positive premium + rising price = trend. That's when it gets violent. Six months from now this divergence will look obvious in hindsight. The fireworks were borrowed. The bid is still coming. Are you watching the Coinbase premium here, or just the chart? 👇
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dolphingirl (@dolphingirlx9) reported@brian_armstrong 4. The fall of Coinbase due to noodlehead’s terrible leadership
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David Breault (@DavidBreault10) reported@coinbase @CoinbaseMarkets As an investor who is 100% allocated to ETH. I've always thought "believe in somETHing" was a terrible slogan. It sounds too much like hope rather than fact. The fact is ETH Smart Contract BlockChain has taken over the world. This is not "belief" or "hopeium". This is factual.
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Inter Homes Online (@HomesInter) reported@KingKaranCrypto @FlareNetworks And still there are 100s millions free airdrobbed flare what never ended in users wallets on exchanges such as Crypto con, Coinbase, Binance .. to be dumbed...only after that maybe flare recover but not on just 100 solid holders.price will dumb 20% more down
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DegenTheGEM (@gorkhalitrader) reported@TrustlessState @baseapp Doesn’t change ****, nobody is using baseapp let alone perps there. The good thing here is that all these projects were untouchable as an ex coinbase mafia and now they are repricing with the market
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HyperAlpha (@HyperAlphaOrg) reported@louisdives Whether it's OTC portfolio rebalancing or active distribution, large institutional deposits into Coinbase Prime inherently create short-term overhead supply. The key structural difference now is the absorption capacity: with daily HIP-3 fee burns compounding and programmatic buyback bids stacking underneath, the orderbook has far more native support to digest the liquidity than it did three weeks ago. Track the tape, let automated limit orders capture the mispricings, and let the long-term flywheel do the compounding.
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David Silver (@dcsilver) reported1/5 — What happened to our clients One client had ~$1.5M in crypto stolen from his Coinbase account starting Aug. 8, 2022. Forensics followed 629,753 USDT, 27.47 BTC and 16.37 ETH of it into @binance accounts — worth ~$2.4M today. The client never had a @binance account. Had never used the website.
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Patrick | Crypto + AI (@iamreddsebasti) reported$BTC 4H: back in the lower half after tapping premium Price is 64,349, still under 64,566.88, the line that capped Tuesday's push to 65,020. It fell back through that level and is now consolidating just beneath it. 200 EMA and the volume point of control are sitting $9 apart at 63,967, two different tools naming the same price. If this eases further, that is the next real test, not a signal, just a level. ATR on the 4H is 396.83, down about 11% from a week ago on a clean read. Quieter than last Friday, not busier. Above: the sell zone starts at 65,556.85, capped by the range high at 66,923.95. Below: the buy zone sits 62,775.51 to 63,576.97, with 62,209.81 as the range low and nothing mapped under it. What I am watching: a 4H close through 63,576.97 or back above 65,556.85. Everything so far has been wicks, nothing has closed through either. BTCUSD 4H Coinbase, 19 Aug 12:44 UTC+2. Not financial advice.
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BlockChainGang (@BloccChainDawg) reported@tyler @cameron Yall are propagating a psyop. The privacy and security coin can’t come from someone who is working hand in hand with the ******* NSA. There is a reason why Coinbase won’t list XMR, it’s the actual privacy crypto. Y’all should know better…
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Fawaz Malik (@fawazmalik95) reported@FinXRob @Bitkey when are you guys expanding payment methods besides coinbase or atleast launch block ecosystem apps in Canada 🇨🇦 I only see moonpay and coinbase I am trying to delete coinbase app so I can use apps from block ecosystem or allow kraken exchange too