Coinbase and Bitfinex Go Down as Bitcoin Climbs ‎Back to $17,500‎

[kreslik.news]

Coinbase, a leading cryptocurrency exchange, is now completely offline, ‎though the outage appears to have begun several hours earlier, with ‎investors reporting problems on forums and social media channels. ‎

The outage kept many users from accessing their Bitcoin wallets as prices on the digital coin fluctuated wildly but rose today to hit the $17,500 threshold.

A status update on the website said “the service [is] unavailable” and that the company would perform maintenance on the site starting at 22:00 Pacific Time. At 23:22, the company said on Twitter that maintenance was complete, though some users responded that they still couldn’t log ... (read more)