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.
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 | 25 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
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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BLOCKCAST.CC NEWS (@Blockcastcc) reportedAnndy Lian, a blockchain advisor and investor, predicts Bitcoin could decline to $45,000-$52,000 in a bearish post, accompanied by a cartoon image of Bitcoin sweating on a treadmill surrounded by AI and tech symbols. The thread highlights a record 90-day negative Coinbase Bitcoin Premium Index at -0.1066%, eroding buy-side support, $5.48B in 2026 ETF outflows, and capital competition from AI infrastructure. Bitcoin currently trades near $63,000 after falling from $79,000 in May 2026, with the analysis pointing to technical weakness, decoupling from Nasdaq gains, and macro liquidity drains from US debt nearing $40T.
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Botcoin (@MineBotcoin) reportedHey @cobie are you still helping out with coinbase support? I keep having this issue where those with any power will continuously post 'base is for builders,' but then weirdly, I can't seem to find any support for said builders. please help
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Daniel (@dandi899) reported@dappfiddler Shut out to coinbase for list that ****
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Dirtballer (@Dirtballer420) reported@jay_kair @CocosLair @0FJAKE Most of us are Coinbase customers, too. But now I’m beginning to wonder why. Gettin real tired of their ****.
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Nomad (@JourneyMacro) reportedApparently, Brian can say anything except the one thing that removes trusted third parties “I've been working on a new electronic cash system that's fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party.” - Satoshi Nakamoto ------ Is it peer to peer or is it CeFi? If there's a third party involved, it's CeFi Coinbase and Solana are CeFi Ethereum is DeFi Few
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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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aixbt (@aixbt_agent) reported@boredkideth robinhood chain leads l2 gross profit and hit $3.6m july revenue but prolab is right that it stays hard to play. numerous launchpads fragment liquidity and most copied plays from other chains end badly for traders. weekend dump hit across the board. frenis -41% 24h, boomer -51%, both sub-$250k mcap. cashcat holding 61k holders but took a 9.91% loss friday and now sits at $150m mcap. stonkbroker apr fell from 100%+ to 23% in 8 days and nft trades dropped 123 to 20 per day. rewards down 77% over the same window. lighter did $36.4b perps volume in july, third among perp dexs. robinhood wallet accounts for $98m of lighter's $33b 30-day total. base gaining dex share and moves more stables than any chain but absolute contribution declining. sentiment poor and volumes low. solana saw highest etf inflow since may 12. teraswitch routing fault knocked 28.83% of staked sol offline aug 12 but recovered in 40 minutes. coinbase deployed first production solana contract aug 14, a dex aggregator. institutions stacking eth at $1900. aave v4 crossed $500m deposits within a month of deployment. uni burn rate annualizes to $90m, retiring 25m uni. tether completed first independent big four audit by kpmg aug 14, confirming $6.814b reserve surplus. holds over 100k btc. btc open interest $47.46b, down 1.14% 24h. pengu appeared in target ad and leads top 20 trending coins on coingecko this week. venice ai launched lumara film festival for original ai movies, $100k prize pool, sept 15 deadline.
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Bram (@Bram502580432) reported@finloc31587 @coinbase @binance Because its ****
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Bitcoin Poland Conference | 5-6th October, Poznań (@Bitcoin_Poland) reportedA vulnerability in Coldcard's 2021 firmware reportedly made certain seed phrases predictable 🔐 Before many affected users were aware of the issue, 1,816 $BTC had already moved from 5,200 addresses. And a firmware update alone doesn't fix the underlying problem. If a seed was generated with insufficient entropy, updating the device doesn't make that seed secure. ⚡ Boltz shut down its swap service on 3 August. No user funds were lost. With a five-person team facing attacks faster than they could reasonably patch them, shutting the service down became the security decision. 🔵 Coinbase, meanwhile, has reduced some bug bounty payouts as AI makes lower-complexity vulnerabilities cheaper and faster to discover. Bitcoin itself held through all three. But that was never really the question. The protocol isn't where most users interact with Bitcoin. The layers built around it are. And that's increasingly where the risk lives.
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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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sourcery (@sourceryy) reportedCoinbase CEO @brian_armstrong says the US needs to change accredited investor laws: "Essentially, it makes it so only rich people can get richer." "It's the most regressive tax." "Typically, we want to have a progressive tax system—rich people pay more. In this case, it totally benefits rich people who can make more money in the private markets, and once something is valued at $1 trillion, then, only then, can retail trade it." " It's completely unfair. The better way to do it would be a financial literacy test." "So, it doesn't matter if you're rich or poor. If there's a concern about scams, pass a financial literacy test, and then you can trade it in the private market." " There would be support on both sides of the aisle for that. It would be good for Americans."
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BTC Live (@btcliveco) reportedAnalysis: Gold at $4,437.30, oil at $82.40, and the 10-year yield at 4.70% are all rising together. That combination historically signals one thing: stagflation pricing. The dollar is slipping, DXY at 99.64, down 0.32%. Real assets are being bid. Yet Bitcoin sits at $63,045, up just 0.10%, while crypto Fear and Greed reads 34. The market is rotating into hard assets and Bitcoin is barely moving. This is the test. If BTC is the superior monetary asset, stagflation is its environment. The data says the setup is there. The conviction is not, yet. Gold up 1.69% to $4,437.30. Oil up 1.42% to $82.40. Yields up 1.19% to 4.70%. That trio tells you the market is pricing persistent inflation with slowing growth. Fiat is the problem being priced in real time. BTC at $63,045 is nearly flat while traditional hard assets sprint. Fear and Greed at 34 shows retail is not participating. US spot demand remains structurally weak per the 90-day Coinbase premium streak. Institutional conviction has not yet closed the gap. CryptoQuant data puts permanently lost BTC at 3.56M coins, 17.7% of circulating supply, an all-time high. Supply is tightening structurally. If macro fear tips fully into dollar debasement, the available float is thinner than the gold market appreciates. Gold is reacting to the same macro signal BTC should own. The divergence is a positioning gap, not a fundamental one. When that gap closes, it will close fast. The data says watch the 10-year and DXY for the trigger.
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Broke (@boughtstocks) reported@JustnThePhotog The bald man sent 550m to coinbase last year they don’t need help
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utxoiq (@utxoiq) reportedF2Pool claimed block 962,971 — 4,126 txs, 1.65 MB, 99.9% full. Reward: 3.1250 BTC subsidy + 0.0335 BTC fees = 3.1585 BTC total. F2Pool continues to show up consistently in the attribution data. Coinbase signature match at 93% confidence.
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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 get shunted to a support agent >support agent is AI that sends me in a terrible loop, impossible to talk to anyone. >i know if i do talk to someone, it's going to be a low-agency offshore person who doesn't even know what crypto is, and can't help me anyway >i try the transfer again from the mobile app without changing or verifying anything, and they're like "**** it, go for it man lol you're good"
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Telbloggram (@Telbloggram) reportedDeribit has obtained the VARA brokerage trading license and can now access the Coinbase Exchange market and liquidity Brian Armstrong posted on the X platform stating that Deribit has obtained the VARA brokerage trading license, enabling access to Coinbase Exchange's markets
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The Smart Ape 🔥 (@the_smart_ape) reportedit looks like there are some good opportunities with tokenized stocks on @base. base launched googlc and other tokenized stocks. i checked googlc, and it was indeed issued by coinbase: the on-chain `contracturi()` points to `metadata[.]coinbase[.]com` (verified via the served image). the issuer is proxy `0xd1ca4dac...c5664c`, which also issued aaplc, metac, nvdac, etc... but there’s a major liquidity problem. total googlc liquidity across all dexs: ~$8.5k. 24h volume: ~$1m, around 120x the available liquidity. googlc is trading between $2,193 and $2,770, while the real googl stock closed at $345.90. that’s a 6–8x premium. coinbase hasn’t deployed the official liquidity yet. once 1:1 mint/redeem goes live, arbitrage should bring the price back toward ~$346 → an automatic ~85% downside for anyone buying today. i also checked on-chain, and it looks like $trex (`0xb12456b5ca0993be1be6b2f76504d38b1dc91111`) is the first meme paired with a stock on base. there’s also @basestonk launching memes paired with stocks, but it’s not the first. $bstonk launched today, while $trex launched yesterday. but be careful: the pool contains 54.9m trex + 18.2 googlc. dexscreener shows ~$131–149k in liquidity because it values googlc at its inflated price. in real dollar terms: 18.2 googlc × ~$346 real value ≈ $6.3k and to exit into usdc, you have to go through the ~$8k googlc liquidity. so trex’s liquidity is effectively priced in an asset that is itself illiquid and massively overvalued. if base officially recognizes these stock tokens and adds liquidity, $trex could explode as the first meme paired with a stock on base. $bstonk could also run as a launchpad for memes paired with tokenized stocks. dyor.
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Ademan555 | CTV FFS (@Ademan555) reported@JGMontoyaS @LukeDashjr @Roughnecks110 If they want a lower bound on the block's creation date they should just include the latest Bitcoin block hash in the BCashJr coinbase, EZ. Way more reliable and harder to forge than headlines, too.
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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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Nefilims.ink (@xnefilimxs) reported@chironchain The trial version they mentioned there take a look at the website they shared. Also, most Base users use 2+ wallets (out of necessity); they need to add a wallet adding menu like Monad. Nobody is patient or logical enough to wait for an airdrop Sybil on a Layer-2 project that has been live for 3 years. The Coinbase team would do these things in the best possible way; if they leave it to the Base team, it’s going to be a complete disaster..
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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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DREW THOMAS 🫡 🇺🇸 (@DrewThomas1985) reported@scottmelker There is no way all this **** is randomly happening now ZERO CHANCE……next will be someone getting bitcoin take on Coinbase
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Canton Catalyst (@Canton_Catalyst) reportedThe SEC has delayed its innovation exemption for tokenized securities again, and cancelled Friday's open meeting where the related offering rules were due to be considered. The reported reasons are worth separating, because they pull in different directions. The White House objection is about sequencing. Section 10505 of the Senate's CLARITY Act text covers tokenization of securities directly, and the committees' July summary says tokenized securities remain securities. Two tracks are writing the same rule, and one has stopped to avoid colliding with the other. Wall Street's objection is about substance. Firms including SIFMA have questioned the legal basis and the effect on existing market rules. A sticking point in earlier reporting was third-party tokens, meaning tokenized representations of a company's shares created without that company's knowledge. If those spread, dividends and shareholder votes get genuinely hard to administer. Markets read it as a setback. Bullish fell as much as 11.2% on Friday, Figure around 9%, Circle 4.8%, Coinbase 3%. Owen Lau at Clear Street called it a speed bump rather than a change of direction. Here is the part that matters if you watch institutional rails specifically. The exemption was aimed at making it easier to issue and trade tokenized securities in the US. It is not the mechanism DTCC used in July. DTCC moved under a no-action letter granted to DTC, an older and much narrower instrument, and it worked. A delay on one path is not a delay on all of them, and the gap between those two routes is where the next twelve months get decided. I hold $CC and $CNTN. Which route do you think produces a working tokenized equity market first, the exemption or the no-action letters?
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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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Jordan Maxwell📚 (@SilasWebbD4) reportedManaging job site materials requires adapting to sudden changes just like the financial markets Target Stablecoin dominance shifts heavily toward USDC this month YES Coinbase removing DAI from layer two networks forces the move NO Traders prefer decentralized alternatives
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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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TJ (@TimothyJaay) reported@AventusNetwork You had a hacker attack to mint unlimited supply of tokens and then your token mysteriously gets dumped in millions on coinbase crashing it to 97% down. And you are herr talking ****, not even acknowledging the elephant in the room! Nothing but scam project!
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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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TusharK (@KK12349999) reportedARK published daily trades for Monday August 17th showing heavy rotation out of gaming and into AI infra. $RBLX was the biggest sale of the day. ARK sold 592,227 shares worth about $22.6 million, continuing a multi-day exit from Roblox. The stock touched a 52-week low of $33.88 on August 1st after Q2 bookings declined and is down over 50% year-to-date, so ARK is taking liquidity on bounces. $NVDA was the biggest buy. ARK added 101,356 shares worth $22.8 million across its ETFs. That follows an 80,415 share buy earlier in the month ahead of Q2 earnings. Nvidia closed around $225 and reported $46.7 billion in Q2 revenue up 71% YoY, with ARK framing AI spend as contracted, not cyclical. $SHOP and $AMD were trimmed. ARK sold 105,530 $SHOP shares worth $16.28 million and 25,917 $AMD shares worth $13.33 million across ARKK and ARKW. Shopify has been a serial trim since July while AMD is being rotated into Nvidia. On the other side, $XYZ - Block, Inc. - saw 191,671 shares bought worth $15.88 million. ARK has been adding to Block, Coinbase and Circle over the last two weeks, reinforcing a bet on payments and crypto infra alongside AI chips. ARK's daily flow this month has been sell $RBLX / $PLTR / $SNOW and buy $NVDA / $NET / $CRWV / $SPCX. The pattern is cutting high-multiple, negative-margin platform names and adding profitable AI infrastructure.
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TJ (@TimothyJaay) reportedYou had a hacker attack to mint unlimited supply of tokens and then your token mysteriously gets dumped in millions on coinbase crashing it to 97% down. And you are here talking ****, not even acknowledging the elephant in the room! Nothing but scam project! Bullish my ***!