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Coinbase is currently down for maintenance. Please try again later or see our status page for more information.

How long will this take ?

You can pretty much check everything here including whats the reason behind the downtime: https://status.coinbase.com/
The official website is redirecting to this page that says that an error has occured: https://coinbase.com/503.html

It was yesterday and being fixed few hours after your post.

I did some transaction at Coinbase only less than a hour ago or around 30 minutes. And now because this thread was being bumped, I just realized that Coinbase is again experiencing the same problem.


Yes OP you can check the Coinbase status at the mentioned site by Oss.

I highly doubt it'll be down for more than a couple of days intermittently.  It's only a minor issue/glitch and Coinbase is pretty well regulated.

We should all keep a close eye on how they compensate customers who have failed with credit card deposits though.

Today unavailable again yesterday they already fixed the issue but looks like they are fixing more issue..
I made a transaction yesterday and its ok. but right now looks like they having issue again back about debit and credit cards payment methods..
Look at the status https://status.coinbase.com
Because yesterday they are fixing the coinbase website i think about the bugs like can't sign message with the address and delay sending bitcoin..

Right. The sign message feature have not yet fixed. Anyway, do you use the sign message feature in the past days? How is it? Because there is a user with a related problem here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1924949.msg19100366#msg19100366 . I just have to said that maybe because of the browser but with us both having the same experience it's impossible that the problem is on our side.

I send an email to them on which I got a response that "While we strive to provide personalized service to all our customers, we are not currently able to provide email support for residents of your country. We would suggest exploring our Support Center and Community Forum for information and resolutions to common issues."

So Im not expecting an answer to them as a priority.

Coinbase website is accessible now and will do some transaction there now. Although the part of signed message you are talking about that is not working is still not fixed.

https://status.coinbase.com/


How about those people who lived in their supported country will do the email about that sign message? Will it gained priority somehow?

Coinbase seems to be working well with me. Maybe their maintenance is already done. Try checking it out again OP. And base on their status, they are investigating into something that leads to their site for down time.

Looks like they are still in trouble with sign message their new theme honestly there are lots of bugs base in my experience when using them..
I think its not a browser issue even you are using any browser opera browser or firefox the same result.. because i thought its also a browser problem but many people also complaining about this issue..

Here it's unavailable for maintenance reason (that is what they say). Nothing we can do about it now, just wait.

I think there isn't reason to fear now, it's a trusted service and soon as possible they will come back online again. That is what their status says:

"Investigating - We're looking into reports of customers incorrectly receiving CVN verification errors and 24 hour lockouts when attempting to verify new credit or debit cards. Bank account verification remains online as an alternative."

I'm not using coinbase anymore as I find a lot of complains about them way back then. And I don't have an idea with that verification or any problems that they are dealing with. I know they are one of the trusted and will surely it will be fixed soon so to those CB users out there, just wait for some updates from them.

Also, its third days coinbase again going to maintenance nothing improve till now, last update seems like mentioned below:
Identified - We're currently experiencing slower than normal load times and some customers may experience degraded performance when using Coinbase.com. We appreciate your patience while we work to resolve this as quickly as possible.

this is conspiracy! whenever the price(s) skyrocketed
there is one or more big exchange get blown out!
this is the pattern..
this is the signal..

P.S. Please don't take this statement to seriously, i am serious!

The main reason of this maintenace of coinbase is because of this rapidly increasing value of bitcoin, they afraid that there users or most of there users sell their bitcoin back to their bank accounts (which this will happen of course to make some profit) and that's unfair just simply of that, that's why they make a reason with this...
So expect that the site will back when the price decrease or if the price becomes more stable at this stage. ::)

Coinbase is up now.

Just pissed of here a bit because I newly installed their app on my extra tablet. When I tried to login , I received about 10+ codes thru SMS. And all of that codes are not working. So now I test it on desktop to see if same problem occur but here it's fine. Maybe because it just only few minutes after the site become operational. I leave as it now on my tablet and will test again later.

Edit: Looks like still having a problem. Im not receiving their verification email lol.

About 3 days Coinbase website and iOS app are still down. Should I worry about my money?

It depends where you live. They seem to be blocking some countries. If you use a vpn to access through USA or Australia can log in. Where I live it says down for maintenance but since can login via vpn seems to be a lie and just blocking some countries???

Why should they start to blocking some countries?? More customers = more money...

As easy as It sounds, Its not. Things doesn't work that way, there are laws to follow and sometimes these laws prevent services from getting into some countries.

Coinbase is down.
EDIT: Coinbase is up.
EDIT: Coinbase is down.
EDIT: Coinbase is up.


Kidding.  Coinbase should be OK and they're somewhat regulated, but everyone would say similar things about Mt. Gox as well.

Whenever there's a giant rise in price like this, Bitcoin exchanges aren't quite prepared for the rise in traffic they get, even if they're solvent. Some exchanges will be safe and some won't, but it's extremely hard to tell the difference.

If I were you I'd just take out your money into cold storage or another safe place.

No laws in my country has changed. I am using coinbase long time. Thats why I can't get this outdage. But if would be true that CB cut off my country - shouldn't they let us know in advance, to get money out of them? I have now no accesss to my BTC and ETH. So to get my money I should move to America or what?!?

Use a VPN.

Are you guys trying the sign message? still not working for me looks like they are still halving bug with their new theme and i think this issue still not fix.. i thought they will fix it according to their updates few weeks ago..
They also should give us the private key of every bitcoin we use there so that we can install the wallet address to the other wallet for safety.. honestly i lose trust from them because of many halving problem about their service i am still using their vault even they are always halving problem and issue but they should always inform people about the issue of their site sometimes it takes longer before they reply i experience of ignoring my message from them if i didn't post the issue in their twitter they never reply me.

Still  not working on my part. I think almost a week now since I created a thread about that.

I have also send them emails but unfortunately the response was made by automated replies and no concern of mine was being pointed out. Im not storing too much coins at Coinbase as I only used their service. Giving out private keys are not the main objects of most of the exchanges so accepts that and don't use them for storage purposes. I will try to send again another ticket later as part of my daily bump in their support.

I think this is intentional. There is no way the management behind the most funded exchange is so incompetent. They were working just fine as the price was rising. They're doing their best to prevent s further crash for sure.

I think they claimed doubling of volume and thus swamped. Likely also
Translation times sucked.

But, you could be correct. Easier to sell btc on the upside,
then cover and payout on the downside

After the recent dowtime, (...downtimes that happen every time there is a situation like last week...) I am moving to another wallet. Coinbase isn't the primary and only wallet I am using, but I decided they are not reliable anymore. I find it's strange coincidences that each time there is a signifiant move on the bitcoin price, the site is down/unsusable whatever...

Exactly, seeing a current bitcoin price I moved everything to Electrum.

It is going down more ofter than it did before. This is surely a sign that bitcoin is gaining popularity and that many people are now interested in it and are investing.
Though the price has fallen now I'm sure it won't take much time for it to gain back it's price and the price also increased recently

Now that Coinbase's hissy fit is over. Move your funds out of coinbase right now. This isn't a help desk. Please don't get caught in their high traffic server maintenance or DDOS attack bullshit again next bloodbath. It will happen again, you'll regret it. Prepare and prevent missing the next sales!  just awful.

I use coinbase...but I never leave any btc or ltc in any exchange....always move it out when my transactions are done..if any extra....this is a common game..when the price
dumps suddenly the ddos attacks supposedly start....too many times seen this on exchanges....

hell for all I know coinbase is legit and really does get slammed when the price dumps and has issues....even so ...they rarely address the issues...

anyway ......been doing it this way since 2013....don't hold ANY coin on an exchange

and if price dumps on your crypto....well ...it is unlikely you will get it out before the dump happens for cash...so plan accordingly ..it will continue to happen imho

on any exchange

Yeah, that is really weird. I am super frustrated now with fact that I wasnt able to buy btc yesterday when the price was down. I had my funds there and couldn't get there cause of coinbase went completely down.
What the hell?

Guys, can you kindly advise me on good exchange where I can buy btc using debit card? (preferably for europeans with euro) Thanks a lot!

Seriously! Crypto community needs to start boycotting Coinbase for going out of service during every time market is correcting. I know other exchanges do go down also but seems like coinbase is down every freaking time when the market starts to go down. Always blaming at attack by hackers. Really? And soon as price starts climbing back up, service comes back online. Sure, call it a conspiracy.