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Coinbase Experiencing Extended Outages, Including for Credit Card

The company said it is actively working on the issue and plans to post an update soon.

Updated May 11, 2023, 4:11 p.m. Published Oct 27, 2021, 9:04 p.m.

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Crypto trading platform Coinbase was experiencing extended outages on Wednesday that were affecting access to its Coinbase and Coinbase Pro platforms as well as its credit card.

On its status page Coinbase was reporting a major outage of its Coinbase credit card and partial outages of its website, mobile apps and API.
According to Downdetector, Coinbase has been experiencing a high level of outage reports since 17:00 UTC (3 p.m. ET).
The company tweeted at 17:45 UTC, “We are aware that some customers are having issues accessing Coinbase and Coinbase Pro. We are actively working on the issue and will post an update soon.” It followed that up with a tweet at 18:09 UTC saying, “Trades and transactions may be delayed due to the ongoing issue. We’re all hands on deck to get this resolved as soon as possible. Stay tuned for updates.”

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Nelson Wang

Nelson edits features and opinion stories and was previously CoinDesk’s U.S. News Editor for the East Coast. He has also been an editor at Unchained and DL News, and prior to working at CoinDesk, he was the technology stocks editor and consumer stocks editor at TheStreet. He has also held editing positions at Yahoo.com and Condé Nast Portfolio’s website, and was the content director for aMedia, an Asian American media company. Nelson grew up on Long Island, New York and went to Harvard College, earning a degree in Social Studies. He holds BTC, ETH and SOL above CoinDesk’s disclosure threshold of $1,000.