Coinbase website goes unreachable for some users after court-ordered block

Some Coinbase users found the exchange’s website unreachable on October 14, 2026. The mobile app, meanwhile, kept chugging along as if nothing had happened. The cause was not a server meltdown or a botched software update. For users in Taiwan, the outage traced back to a courtroom, specifically a block ordered by the New Taipei District Court. A legal outage, not a technical one The court action was issued under Taiwan’s Public Officials Election and Recall Act. The order carries the reference number 115年度聲扣字第55號. Its stated concern was Coinbase’s prediction markets. Those markets included events connected to Taiwan’s upcoming presidential election. Independent tests confirmed that web connections to coinbase.com were being redirected. Instead of the familiar trading dashboard, visitors landed on a block page noting that the court ruling was being enforced. Reports started appearing around midday on October 14, Taipei time. Social media users quickly began posting screenshots of the same block notice, captured across different devices and browsers. The app kept working, and the status page stayed green The block appears to have targeted the web domain specifically. Access through t...