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Re:Coinbase down for maintenance by wbl on Thursday December 07, 2017 @03:54PM (#15874089)
And yet the NYSE keeps on ticking.
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Re:Coinbase down for maintenance by Klathmon on Thursday December 07, 2017 @03:55PM (#15874106)
... from 9 to 5, monday through friday, with a fairly predictable load, and decades more experience.

I'm not saying it's impossible, but the amount of growth they have seen is substantial and unprecedented. Nobody could have predicted it, and the rate of increase just keeps going up.

They are clearly new in this space, as all cryptocurrency companies are. I don't think that means that they should just give up and go home because they couldn't keep the servers up during spikes of insane activity...

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Re:Coinbase down for maintenance by kornish on Thursday December 07, 2017 @06:12PM (#15875259)
> ... from 9 to 5, monday through friday, with a fairly predictable load, and decades more experience.

And a lot more operating capital, too.

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