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Re:Coinbase says buying and selling temporarily disabled ami... by SilasX on Friday December 22, 2017 @11:58AM (#15988897)
Coinbase had four outages in June that corresponded to unusually high volume. That didn't scare you away?

That was when I was initially setting up accounts, and it was enough to scare me away. I use Gemini. They've had unplanned outages too, but they're much rarer -- only one that I recall over the same timespan (against 10+ for Coinbase).

Re:Coinbase says buying and selling temporarily disabled ami... by dahdum on Friday December 22, 2017 @12:32PM (#15989223)
Every exchange has gone down, Kraken is far worse than Coinbase. Poloniex used to go down constantly, but they are holding up remarkably well lately.

Gemini's spread used to be pretty bad and they didn't do much volume outside their daily auction. They really aren't focused on retail investors so they don't see the same scaling issues as Coinbase.

Re:Coinbase says buying and selling temporarily disabled ami... by burger_moon on Friday December 22, 2017 @12:41PM (#15989313)
Even now Gemini's volume is pretty low. I just checked and BTC is 36k, last time I saw GDAX today (won't load for me now) was around 88k I think.
Re:Coinbase says buying and selling temporarily disabled ami... by SilasX on Friday December 22, 2017 @12:55PM (#15989424)
So a 2x volume justifies 10x outages?