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The U.S. cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase faced technical difficulties on Tuesday for several hours as Bitcoin reached a record high of $69,000. By Wednesday in Asia, Bitcoin was trading down 7% at $63,000.
In light of these challenges, Coinbase consistently updated and reassured its users during the outage: “We are aware that some users may be encountering errors while transacting. Our team is looking into this matter and will provide an update shortly. Your assets are secure.”
“We recognize that some users may experience increased latency on Coinbase.com, and a few may see intermittent zero balances. Please be assured that your funds are secure. Our team is investigating this issue and will provide an update. Trading is currently unaffected.”
Numerous exchange users voiced their disappointment and frustration on the social media platform X as Bitcoin triggered a trading frenzy in the market. Many speculated that the Coinbase outage could be a “flash crash,” which occurs when the value of a market drops sharply in electronic trading over a brief period.
Customer transactions have fully recovered, and we will continue to monitor activity. Advanced Trade API users may still experience increased throttling as we handle elevated trade volume. https://t.co/dOWxljnSvX
— Coinbase Support (@CoinbaseSupport) March 5, 2024
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This is not the first instance of Coinbase facing such challenges. Earlier this week, a glitch caused the platform to experience similar issues due to a spike in traffic.
This recent increase in market activity and bullish sentiment has put pressure on Coinbase’s infrastructure, resulting in sporadic technical difficulties. Heightened outages were reported in the past 24 hours, likely due to traders and investors flocking to the platform to take advantage of the favorable market conditions. This surge of users may have overwhelmed the exchange’s servers, resulting in latency and zero-balance issues for some customers.
Apps are now recovering.
We had anticipated a ~10x increase in traffic and conducted load testing. This surpassed that figure.
It’s costly to maintain services over-provisioned, but we will need to continue working on auto-scaling solutions and eliminating any remaining bottlenecks. Thank you for… https://t.co/JXVppV57AF
— Brian Armstrong
(@brian_armstrong) February 28, 2024
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