Except Coinbase is totally fucked right now.
I would advise anyone to not use their service. If you have any issue with your account you will be waiting weeks or months for a response from support.
They are too busy spending money on facebook ads to hire personnel or make improvements to the website/ backend.
(Website was down several times yesterday.)
Maybe things will improve in the coming months but for now Monero doesn't need them to be successful. Its way undervalued and if you don't own some of these coins in a few years you are going to regret it. I would be very surprised if XMR wasn't $100 by this time next year.
Monero is the GNU Linux of the Crypto world. It doesn't need ads or corporate sponsors. Hard work and good code will prevail over time. This is a long-term project.
At some point coinbase had 50000 new accounts made per day. So I am sure that times were hectic. I woudl expect that on any exchange actually. But those most popular have biggest activity spikes. One of those is also Poloniex. If it will go like this we will see soon constantly over 100k people online on Poloniex. And this soon might happen really soon if Bitcoin will keep getting new ATHs.
About Monero, I said long long time ago that when price reach $50 I will sell 10% of my Moneros and when price doubles so is $100 another 10% and at $200 next 10%. Now price reach $50 two times in almost a week and I classically did nothing
What should I buy for that 10% BTC? Gold? Chilean farming land?
The Dip.