Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase issued alerts at 7:57 a.m. ET Sunday morning indicated that its platform was experiencing an outage that left Coinbase account holders with U.S. bank accounts unable to conduct transactions.
In a statement, Coinbase said: “We are currently unable to take payments or make withdrawals involving U.S. bank accounts. Our team is aware of this issue and is working on getting everything back to normal as soon as possible.”
At 8:23 a.m. ET, the exchange issued another update stating that its engineers identified the transaction's issues and that fixing was being implemented. The main cause of the problem was a bug that has restricted U.S. bank accounts from making withdrawals, deposits or purchases on the platform.
Coinbase identified the issue as a problem with “ACH withdrawals, deposits, and buys failures.” ACH (the Automated Clearing House Network) is a system used for transferring funds electronically in the U.S. between bank accounts.
The exchange...
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