Re:Bitcoin exploding, exchangesites starting to fail
by GrumpyNl on Thursday December 07, 2017 @12:26PM
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https://www.coinbase.com/ is down
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Re:Bitcoin exploding, exchangesites starting to fail
by xexers on Thursday December 07, 2017 @12:43PM
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It could also be because of this article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/06/technology/coinbase-bitco...
Re:Bitcoin exploding, exchangesites starting to fail
by dumbfounder on Thursday December 07, 2017 @01:00PM
(#15872333)
I have been trying to move some money off Kraken with no luck today. Can't withdraw. It says:
Feature Disabled This feature is not currently available.
And the site is awful slow with intermittent Cloudflare error pages.
Re:Bitcoin exploding, exchangesites starting to fail
by Fjolsvith on Thursday December 07, 2017 @01:05PM
(#15872408)
Kraken has never been very user friendly, imo.
Re:Bitcoin exploding, exchangesites starting to fail
by JumpCrisscross on Thursday December 07, 2017 @12:53PM
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Coinbase has an error message stating "Bitcoin sales currently disabled." This is straight out of pre-Exchange Act history.
Re:Bitcoin exploding, exchangesites starting to fail
by bonestamp2 on Thursday December 07, 2017 @12:56PM
(#15872291)
> pre-Exchange Act history
I googled this but couldn't find anything relevant. Can you give some background/context?
Re:Bitcoin exploding, exchangesites starting to fail
by JumpCrisscross on Thursday December 07, 2017 @12:59PM
(#15872323)
The United States overhauled its regulation of securities exchanges, broker-dealers and other intermediaries in 1934 [1]. Before that, it was not uncommon for random exchanges to (a) run away with peoples' money while claiming they went bankrupt, (b) actually go bankrupt, and (c) leave small investors stranded while big ones cashed out. In other words, all the market dysfunction the cryptocurrency markets took half a decade of unsupervised activity to re-invent.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securities_Exchange_Act_of_193...