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Re:Coinbase says buying and selling temporarily disabled ami... by matwood on Friday December 22, 2017 @12:35PM (#15989252)
Regular markets have circuit breakers [1] that stop trading for a period of time. Coinbase should just define and implement these to let their systems catch up.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_curb

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Re:Coinbase says buying and selling temporarily disabled ami... by cma on Friday December 22, 2017 @12:36PM (#15989265)
Coinbase is unintentionally the circuitbreaker. It crashes every time there is a lot of volatility.
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Re:Coinbase says buying and selling temporarily disabled ami... by sean_anandale on Friday December 22, 2017 @12:53PM (#15989399)
That is insane. Traders make money during periods of high volatility and volume. Defined circuit breakers can be planned for, but unpredictable "lol unavailable gtfo" is unacceptable for serious usage.
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