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Coinbase are Brain-Damaged

Journal by MichaelDavidCrawford

I sold all my Etherium with the ~$3000 proceeds going to my USD wallet. The Dashboard page has the correct amounts.

But the Buy/Sell and Accounts pages incorrectly claim that my USD wallet only has $0.10. So I can't buy the Litecoin that I intended to buy. It has been this way for over an hour.

I logged a support ticket but they're so busy it's likely to be a week until they respond.

I expect just about any other exchange would work better. This because Coinbase is the #1 iOS app. As with Linux and Red Hat back during the dot-com boom, I expect many people think Coinbase is the only place you can get bitcoin.

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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday December 13 2017, @12:43AM (1 child)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Wednesday December 13 2017, @12:43AM (#609030) Homepage Journal

    someone the other day posted about how cryptocurrencies always zag when he expects them to zig.

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    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Wednesday December 13 2017, @07:58AM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday December 13 2017, @07:58AM (#609136) Journal
      Get yourself a time machine, and you'll stop having this problem.

  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by aristarchus on Wednesday December 13 2017, @03:44AM (1 child)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday December 13 2017, @03:44AM (#609069) Journal

    MDC, you know, coins do not have brains, and so cannot be damaged. I think "fraud" is the word you are looking for. Can you imagine: "I have a math equation, I will sell it to you for X thousand dollars". Where is the damaged brain in this scenario?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @02:21AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @02:21AM (#609554)

      When you get a coin with bitrot in your your wallet, come back and tell us that coins can't be damaged. The bitrot gets on all your coins, and can even eat the wallet itself up. If you don't notice it in time, it can even get into your computer and keyboard, and infect your fingers. What you gonna do then? It's much to late, all you can do is watch the rot creeping up your arms, moving toward your brains.

  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by takyon on Wednesday December 13 2017, @04:03AM

    by takyon (881) <{takyon} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Wednesday December 13 2017, @04:03AM (#609078) Journal

    Leading cryptocurrency exchange faces outages as bitcoin rivals surge [arstechnica.com]

    This month's cryptocurrency boom isn't limited to bitcoin. Over the last 24 hours, two of bitcoin's biggest rivals—Litecoin and Ethereum's ether—have enjoyed huge price gains.

    Trading volume has been so intense that one of the leading cryptocurrency exchange services, Coinbase, has suffered downtime.

    "Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disabled," read a notice on the Coinbase status page around 2pm Eastern time. That issue was resolved around 45 minutes later, while trading in litecoins was disabled for about 90 minutes earlier in the day. The status page lists both ether and litecoin trading as having a "Major Outage."

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 13 2017, @10:16PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 13 2017, @10:16PM (#609437)

    What's that? Superdupergenius MichaelDavidCrawford fell for cryptocoinfraud?

    Good. He deserves to be poor again.

    Fuck MDC.

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