Everything appeared to be going great. Bitcoin was rising above $13,800 and then all of a sudden in less than 15 minutes the price was about $1,700 less. What happened?
Around 14:15 yesterday it was reported that there was an issue with Coinbase and it was down. On their website was the message, “An error has occurred.” Within the next 25 minutes, the situation was fixed however and the price of Bitcoin recovered. Before the crash, the price of Bitcoin was at $13,728 and it crashed all the way down to $11,671. It has since recovered much of the losses and is trading around $12,750 (at the time of writing).
According to their status page, there were outages on its website, mobile apps, and its API. During this time there were no tweets to notify users of the situation, although they did fix the issue fairly quickly. While there hasn’t been an official statement it appears that their internal systems were functional during the downtime.
Source: altcoinbuzz.io
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