Coinbase status: access issues and outage reports
Some problems detected
Users are reporting problems related to: mobile app, transactions and login.
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.
May 11: Problems at Coinbase
Coinbase is having issues since 08:20 AM EST. 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.
- Mobile App (35%)
- Transactions (24%)
- Login (24%)
- Website (12%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Coinbase outage reports came from the following cities:
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Mobile App | 2 days ago |
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Mobile App | 1 month ago |
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Login | 2 months ago |
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Website | 2 months ago |
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Transactions | 2 months ago |
Community Discussion
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Coinbase Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Sajeel (@sajeel_dev) reportedI am getting 2 otps for 1 coinbase login verification, lol
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BSV Time (@Antmantime) reportedHey @grok Coinbase wouldn't have so many problems if they adopted BSV
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Joseph Ray (@Joeray) reportedAnd OF COURSE @coinbase uses Indian call centers. Who wants to understand what tech support is saying?
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Joe Parrish (@MisterAccord) reportedCoinbase: Trading down for a day, people flip **** DeFi Protocols: Easy scams and exploits that break the business, bailout money galore, "DeFi United" Nobody has to like Coinbase, but it's clear to me that some people just love to hate it. Might buy more $COIN.
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Blue Eyed Devil ❄️ (@TheSublimeTruth) reportedWhy do you freeze customer accounts for no reason? @coinbase
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Armaan Sidhu (@realarmaansidhu) reported@brian_armstrong Brian Armstrong's Coinbase layoff letter is the first explicit corporate confirmation that AI is replacing knowledge workers at scale. He didn't hide it. He made it the structural reason. The structural reality. Coinbase reduced headcount by 14 percent and rebuilt the org around three principles. Maximum 5 layers below the CEO. No pure managers (every leader must ship code). AI-native pods including "one person teams" handling engineer, designer, and PM roles in single hires. The labor displacement math. If a single engineer can ship in days what previously took a team weeks, the team isn't 5x more productive. It's been replaced. Coinbase is publicly admitting the multiplier is real and acting on it before it becomes obvious. The competitive context. Other large tech companies have done quiet AI-driven layoffs without admitting the cause. Armstrong is the first major CEO to write down "AI changed how we work" as the explicit justification. Other CEOs will follow once the tone is set. The structural lesson on AI labor disruption. 2020-2024 saw incremental productivity gains from AI tools. 2025-2026 is producing structural cost reductions that flow directly to operating margin. Displaced workers don't reabsorb. They compete with everyone else's displaced workers. The bull case for Coinbase shareholders. Lower fixed costs through the next crypto cycle mean leverage to revenue growth without proportional opex growth. If crypto adoption accelerates, Coinbase emerges with higher operating leverage. The bear case. Cutting too deep mid-cycle creates execution risk. Crypto cycles have a way of demanding capacity at the moment companies have removed it. Other tech CEOs are watching this letter. The next 12 months will tell whether Coinbase is early or just first.
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toni (@tonitrades_) reported@0xSweep People keep blaming the scammer but the real question is how a fake site ranked above the real Coinbase in Google search. That hole is probably still open.
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bdsmarttader.base.eth (@sajedurrahmans2) reported@ProfessorCornel @base Now base passing by golden peak time because of huge social hype from Base & upcoming Azul update. This hype won't last long... Coinbase is going down consequent quarterly loss Just in Q1 2026 the loss has exceeded $394 million. Base has laid off 14% Employee. Very crucial
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Lawncougar (@lawncougar) reportedCoinbase AI is worse than their customer service, How is that possible?
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sudo rm -rf (@itsjustmarky) reportedCoinbase was down for hours, the reason? A room overheating at AWS datacenter!
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dasha (@0xdasha) reported@100xlifeguard you get real. p2p + bank account and optionally a company in a low tax crypto-friendly country is more than enough. i onboarded exactly once in 2020 and off-ramped hundreds of times since. needing coinbase is a skill issue
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The Rich Douche (@GFYSTWO) reported@raagulanpathy Coinbase is a **** criminal exchange and brian armstrong should be charged with racketeering
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Bitcoin Eagle ⚔️ URSF (@bitcoin_eagle) reported@FrankRundatz Why would anyone use Coinbase after thousands suspicious outage?
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Marcus Furrelius (@MarcusFurrelius) reported@coinbase And now @coinbase support chat is failing to send my messages after we have been chatting for at least an hour and half.
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99PUMP.FUN (@99pumpfun) reported@coinbase and fair launches are part of that innovation. 99 real people fund a token together or it doesn't exist. rug impossible by design.
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Rho Rider (@RhoRider) reported🎯 $COIN is hiding the truth about the AWS outage. The reality is they cheaped-out on Infrastructure backups to juice stock earnings. In 2023 Coinbase slashed “Website Hosting & Infrastructure” expenses by over half, citing “modernization & efficiency” efforts. This would include AWS cloud hosting (& backup). They also cut Developer Resources by half. The lower expenses enabled them to report big earnings estimate beats that year…the stock skyrocketed This was just before the crypto market rebound. In the following years, Coinbase became known for major extended outages during periods of high volume. In FY 2025, despite ATH crypto and significant outages, they still haven’t reinvested back to 2022 levels of Infrastructure investment. @brian_armstrong cares more about the stock price than the safety & stability of the platform.
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Armaan Sidhu (@realarmaansidhu) reportedA senior crypto trader claiming his only contribution to Coinbase over six years was implementing the 4-hour chart in the UI is the funniest take on the layoff letter, and accidentally the most accurate. The structural reality. Most of what AI-driven layoffs are eliminating isn't technical work. It's the accumulated layer of low-output process management, redundant approvals, internal documentation, and meeting overhead that builds up at every scaling tech company. The bigger picture. Tech companies have spent the past decade hiring far ahead of actual product velocity. AI tools are exposing how much of that hiring was answering coordination problems rather than producing output. Coinbase isn't unusual. It's just first to admit it publicly. The honest read on senior tech salaries. Many engineers, designers, and *** at major tech companies earn $300-500K per year for output AI tooling now produces in fractions of the time. The pain isn't in junior roles. It's in expensive senior roles that aren't generating proportional value. The structural lesson on hiring booms. Every prior tech cycle hired ahead of productivity. Every prior correction cut the excess. AI is the catalyst this time, but the dynamic is normal cyclical capital reallocation. The deeper joke. The 4H chart probably did take six months and eleven cross-functional meetings. That's the system being parodied. If your output is the kind of thing AI can produce in an afternoon, the joke is about you. Coinbase isn't laughing.
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Alessandra (@CryptoSbaby) reported@coinbase Who would believe you now though? You went down just after you released your financials. You have tons of so called profits but can't even have better servers? Makes you look bad doesn't it?
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CHAMPA BAY OG (@RJacobs126) reported@PeakOneX **** the on already on coinbase is poppin off 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀
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Frank Rundatz (@FrankRundatz) reported@Cliffinkent Yes - this points out that tradfi banks are much more regulated than defi companies. I agree that most tradfi banks have redundancy for an entire region going down. Coinbase claims to have not been prepared for a single AZ having a problem.
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Glitch Labs (@GlitchLabsFun) reported@coinbase @LethalShooter__ "Talk a big game..." The Wired has been listening to that noise for a long time. Most will bet on illusions. A few will simply tune into the real signal. Glitch Labs is already forming in the static — no predictions needed. Only recognition. $GLITCH 🌀
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NITHIN (@Ethgreedy) reported@coinbase Please consider P2P? Indians most difficult part in P2P transaction in other exchanges, please solve this issue @brian_armstrong @coinbase
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†༙ H͓̽e͓̽l͓̽l͓̽s͓̽B͓̽e͓̽l͓̽l͓̽s͓̽ †༙ (@0xHellsBells) reported@fukupapers @coinbase good ****. never doubt. it‘s obvious for what‘s coming. iykyk
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hannibal 🦖 (@shoedarg) reported@coinbase What happened to token sales? Was meant to be ~one per month? Not getting access to Arc by Circle (where there is a direct Coinbase relationship) seems like a miss.
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anon (@HarshAnon82) reported@coinbase Why does this **** company keep coming up in my feed.
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Mark Maxwell (@marktmaxwell) reported@RonSwanonson @billiamBTC @coinbase CB servers down again?
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Vance Matheus $MFT (@TheusEXIT) reported@apc5150 You should have no issue since you use coinbase, have you tried using the walletconnect option from migratefun portal ?
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Joseph Ray (@Joeray) reportedHoly **** @CoinbaseSupport @coinbase this is some of the worst customer service I’ve ever had. Transferred 6 times. Put on hold constantly. Reverify who I am at every transfer. “That isn’t something I can help you with let me transfer”. All while I’m in a grocery store trying to buy food. I was going to pay down part of my credit card (so I have more available credit to buy groceries) but I get an error on the app “Something Went Wrong”.
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NoBitchNiggas (@NoBitchNiggas4) reported@pedro5551 Yeah cause phantom wallet gives a **** about what i hold on coinbase wallet and uses a gmail
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just (@idiotTweetingit) reported@FrankRundatz You are right this also shows @brian_armstrong careless behaviour. When he can’t even build a software with availability I am not surprised when he says any one can build with ai. Coinbase is **** before ai only I expected better but reality is out in open