Coinbase is down
DDoS?
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.
Coinbase always seems to go down during a flash-crash. they re-open once the price has stabilised. This was the case even when they had a lot less users.
It makes me very nervous about what they could be doing behind the scenes.
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).
Sufficient traffic can act like a DDoS...
Coinbase has frequently been spotty during large fluctuations in Bitcoin’s price due to high trade volume.
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.
Just seeing now that you already noticed that, nvm.
Link to that comment for posterity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15807634