Coinbase is down

#1

Post by dhandel » Wed, Nov 29, 2017, 2:25 PM UTC

DDoS?

Re: Coinbase is down

#2

Post by BoorishBears » Wed, Nov 29, 2017, 2:38 PM UTC

Sufficient traffic can act like a DDoS...

Coinbase has frequently been spotty during large fluctuations in Bitcoin’s price due to high trade volume.

Re: Coinbase is down

#3

Post by czsr » Wed, Nov 29, 2017, 2:58 PM UTC

Coinbase said that:

Minor Service Outage: We're investigating performance issues on Coinbase.com and are working to resolve them. We will update with more information as it becomes available.

https://support.coinbase.com/

Re: Coinbase is down

#4

Post by kylezinter » Wed, Nov 29, 2017, 3:03 PM UTC

Hmmm I wonder if this is an actual attack or just a flush of actual users.

Re: Coinbase is down

#5

Post by SilasX » Wed, Nov 29, 2017, 3:45 PM UTC

Also Gemini (Gemini’s public site is up but ability to log in is intermittent).

Kraken and Bitstamp has outages around 7:30am Pacific. (Bitstamp’s public site was up but trading updates had stopped at 7:18).

Re: Coinbase is down

#6

Post by SilasX » Wed, Nov 29, 2017, 3:46 PM UTC

kylezinter wrote: post #4

Hmmm I wonder if this is an actual attack or just a flush of actual users.

Coinbase had like four outages in June that coincided with unusually high volume. I wish people had taken the hint that it will happen during hot times.

Re: Coinbase is down

#7

Post by kylezinter » Wed, Nov 29, 2017, 5:06 PM UTC

SilasX wrote: post #6

kylezinter wrote: post #4

Hmmm I wonder if this is an actual attack or just a flush of actual users.

Coinbase had like four outages in June that coincided with unusually high volume. I wish people had taken the hint that it will happen during hot times.

True, makes sense. It's interesting, I found a few other sites having issues right now too, like Kraken when trying to log in it has an SSL handshake issue with cloudflare.

Re: Coinbase is down

#8

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Nov 29, 2017, 5:07 PM UTC

kylezinter wrote: post #7

SilasX wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Coinbase had like four outages in June that coincided with unusually high volume. I wish people had taken the hint that it will happen during hot times.

True, makes sense. It's interesting, I found a few other sites having issues right now too, like Kraken when trying to log in it has an SSL handshake issue with cloudflare.

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Re: Coinbase is down

#9

Post by kylezinter » Wed, Nov 29, 2017, 5:08 PM UTC

SilasX wrote: post #6

kylezinter wrote: post #4

Hmmm I wonder if this is an actual attack or just a flush of actual users.

Coinbase had like four outages in June that coincided with unusually high volume. I wish people had taken the hint that it will happen during hot times.

Just seeing now that you already noticed that, nvm.

Re: Coinbase is down

#10

Post by SilasX » Wed, Nov 29, 2017, 6:30 PM UTC

kylezinter wrote: post #9

SilasX wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Coinbase had like four outages in June that coincided with unusually high volume. I wish people had taken the hint that it will happen during hot times.

Just seeing now that you already noticed that, nvm.

Link to that comment for posterity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15807634