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Integrating payment is one of the most complex work to be done and operate, so yes this will fail every once in a while. In particular across different banks in the world. Coinbase must have grown 10-50x times last year so yes keeping your systems performant will be hard. Are you trying to go short on Coinbase?

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> ...this sill fail every once in a while.

Nah, it rains in the desert once in a while. Coinbase seems to fail so much you could set your watch by it. Day in and day out I see the publicity nightmare unfolding and I ask myself: "Why on earth would someone still use Coinbase?" I'm fiercely curious to see what happens to them in the next few years because honestly, if they don't close up shop on their own, I kind of hope the SEC does it for them. Incompetence is not an excuse to screw up this badly.

Their competitors need to up their marketing game and user onboarding.

It took me about 4 weeks to get approved on Gemini which is just unacceptably long.

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