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Coinbase Issues Reports

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  toni (@tonitrades_) reported 2 minutes ago

  @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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  C A L (@0x_KaELo) reported 2 minutes ago

  @BagCalls @quipnetwork Quantum readiness isn't a distant problem anymore. Coinbase said prepare now

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  Kamal S (@s430835) reported 4 minutes ago

  @Saddamkhattak4 No, they did not help. Please be careful when purchasing any cryptocurrency on Coinbase. There are scams up eventually, they will tell you the cryptocurrency is a scam currency so you will not know if it is legitimate or fake

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  CryptOctopus (@rabi_rahat) reported 14 minutes ago

  @Zero2HeroZombie @CoinbaseSupport Wait, are uou saying you can’t get coinbase support within the app and you are posting here ? How Millions users trust the coinbase?

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  Omar (@TheOneandOmsy) reported 14 minutes ago

  How long until the Circle / Coinbase marriage gets messy? > historically $CRCL = issuer of USDC and $COIN = distributor. Coin pushes USDC, and in exchange gets half the economics w/ some adjustments > but w/ Circle now a pubco, it’s been forced into pitching a much broader growth story to investors -> today that’s become: be the infrastructure layer for global payments + real-world finance onchain > to make that a reality, Circle needs to supercharge itself by owning customers and having their flows live on their new venue, Arc > and the problem is that directly conflicts w/ Coinbase’s own ambition w/ Base to be the exchange + rails for everything, especially payments, settlement & FX > and if you look closely, things have started getting messy: cbBTC vs cirBTC = Circle stepping on Coin’s toes w/ the same product > but Circle / Arc post token raise is a much worse deal. With outside investors underwriting the chain, the incentive becomes drive all your assets + activity from everywhere else (including Base / Coinbase) to Arc: USDC balances, tokenized assets, payments, settlement & eventually FX > the two businesses, which were once symbiotic, are now competing H2H and have public shareholders / token holders to keep track of the scoreboard > inevitable that the relationship ultimately ends in divorce. Circle clearly growing up and planning on moving out of its childhood home

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  Frank Rundatz (@FrankRundatz) reported 15 minutes ago

  @Zigadeebong Don’t need a load balancer. Coinbase can have all their services is use-az1 along with their colocated HFT clients. In the event of an outage, Coinbase can switch to use-az2 along with their colocated HFT clients. Abracadabra, no added latency with no load balancer! Takes some design. And of course not every HFT partner will be willing/able to create a redundant system like this. Downtime is their fault then, not Coinbase’s.

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  Crypto Sunny (@Crypto_SunnyS) reported 15 minutes ago

  @Asim_374 @ofc_the_club Try importing the same wallet into Coinbase Wallet, then connect Coinbase Wallet to the website and try again. Its working or not Do let me know

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  bdsmarttader.base.eth (@sajedurrahmans2) reported 15 minutes ago

  @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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  KJTrades_ (@KieranT1000) reported 15 minutes ago

  @DPSLiveSOL @coinbase Would not be surprised mate there useless I’ve never had any problems before I feel for the people who have put thousands in but haven’t received it

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  Armaan Sidhu (@realarmaansidhu) reported 15 minutes ago

  @cgtwts Coinbase went down because chillers in an AWS datacenter overheated. Brian Armstrong walked through the redundancy assumptions that didn't survive the actual physics. CG dropped a clip captioned "the technical team that got fired 2 days ago." The structural read is funnier than the joke and worse than Armstrong is letting on. The receipts. Coinbase architected systems for redundancy across AWS Availability Zones. Implicit assumption: any single AZ can fail and traffic reroutes seamlessly. Actual failure: a physical cooling collapse in one AZ took down hardware faster than rerouting logic could redistribute load. The numbers. AWS operates ~36 active Availability Zones across 12 US regions. Cooling failures are rare but not zero. When they happen, they cascade through hardware in 4-8 hours rather than failing gracefully. Coinbase processes $4-7B in daily transaction volume. An hour of downtime is $170-290M in unprocessed flow plus reputational risk. The structural read. Cloud architecture documentation talks about resilience as if it's a software-only problem. The Coinbase outage is a reminder that infrastructure runs on physics. Pumps fail. Chillers leak. Power supplies die. Most "cloud-native" companies have never run their own physical infrastructure. They lack the reflexes to anticipate failures their cloud provider hides. The honest read. Coinbase didn't fail. The chillers failed. Coinbase's redundancy assumptions failed to model what happens when hardware fails faster than software can reroute. The technical team didn't get fired. The chillers did.

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  Hassan 💛 (@cissey1919) reported 19 minutes ago

  In the same episode, DJohn gave a good shout to x402 from Coinbase, A protocol that lets AI agents pay for things directly through a URL. No API keys. No signups. No friction. An agent visits a link, pays, and gets access. That’s it. Pretty wild honestly. But here’s the thing nobody’s talking about Payments are the easy part. What happens when the agent pays for a service and the output is wrong? Or low quality? Or outright broken? Who decides? Who arbitrates? The agent? Another agent? No one? That’s where agentic commerce actually breaks down, not at the payment layer, but at the judgment layer. Agents need to do more than spend. They need to evaluate, verify, and resolve disputes automatically. Without human intervention. At scale. That’s exactly what GenLayer is building. @GenLayer has an adjudication layer that lets intelligent contracts evaluate real-world outputs, not just "Did the payment go through?" but "Was the result actually good?” This is also the kind of game they played with @RallyOnChain where AI reviews submissions, scores quality, and distributes rewards, all on-chain, all automatic, no manual review needed. x402 handles the "How do agents pay?" GenLayer handles the "How do agents judge Both layers need to exist for agentic commerce to actually work. The payment rail is live. The intelligence layer is being built.

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  Liberty Swap ⚡️ Bridge2Pulse™️ Zero-Fee DEX (@LibertySwapFi) reported 22 minutes ago

  @jacob7r_ @coinbase We have plenty of good karma. If we can recover some funds during this difficult time, it would be best used to support the positive causes we’re working on. We’re a small protocol, every penny counts.

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  Saigo (@Sagondolma) reported 23 minutes ago

  @coinbase Let's talk about the fact me along with hundreds of other customers haven't been credited their deposits for three days now and your support is doing nothing about it

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  Caeris Lab (@caerislab) reported 23 minutes ago

  Solid news hook but worth flagging: the May 14 markup is about the CLARITY Act and stablecoin rewards specifically, not Bitcoin. The fight is over whether "activity-based" incentives are interest in disguise - banks say yes, crypto says no. Also it's not a done deal. Coinbase already said they can't support the bill as written (DeFi + CFTC concerns), and Dems aren't on board yet. If the strip amendment passes on the 14th, the whole compromise collapses. Watch that first contested vote - that's the real signal

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  Marcus Furrelius (@MarcusFurrelius) reported 24 minutes ago

  @coinbase And now @coinbase support chat is failing to send my messages after we have been chatting for at least an hour and half.