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Re:Coinbase says buying and selling temporarily disabled ami... by frgtpsswrdlame on Friday December 22, 2017 @11:49AM (#15988816)
Have they gone down when the price is surging upward? I only ever see them going offline when the price goes down but I may have missed something.
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Re:Coinbase says buying and selling temporarily disabled ami... by ISL on Friday December 22, 2017 @11:52AM (#15988845)
Volume is likely to be higher when the price is getting hammered.

Panic, when it occurs, is more acute than ebullience.

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Re:Coinbase says buying and selling temporarily disabled ami... by akhatri_aus on Friday December 22, 2017 @12:55PM (#15989419)
Actually with volume its happened both ways. You can easily see from public data that volume doesn't only go mad when price is being hammered.
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Re:Coinbase says buying and selling temporarily disabled ami... by mrgordon on Friday December 22, 2017 @11:53AM (#15988855)
Yes the site always crashes under load
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Re:Coinbase says buying and selling temporarily disabled ami... by mhluongo on Friday December 22, 2017 @11:53AM (#15988862)
Just before the first futures it was surging and they went down. But anecdotally it does seem to happen more on the ride down
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