[_nickwhite]

This is great for the ad itself, but I want hear what happened directly after they ran it. The site went down for maybe 10-15 minutes and then came right back up. Probably a great war story from the depths of cloud engineering and devops.

[Simon_O_Rourke]

Yes, the rest of it is just marketing fluff, where's the beef? Give us some network stats to terrify your average sys admin.

[paulpauper]

That is part of the marketing angle too. Now there are tons of stories about the site being down.

[listenallyall]

Given the common reaction that has been expressed... "the site crashed, therefore the ad must have been enormously popular", I'm starting to think Coinbase yanked the plug intentionally

[aaaaaaaaata]

War story: "we didn't like the price action, so we de-auth'd a large portion of our users and didn't let them log back in" seems to be the most common story.