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To be fair, or just as unimpressed, they've been having problems with this when it was quiet too.

But it does make me wonder about how desperate it's going to become if there's another proper bubble. Last time it nearly finished off even the biggest operations and I've seen little mention of them making plans if it happens again.

There's no time to recruit and train enough people as it occurs and I doubt anyone would be willing to employ vast numbers on the off chance there's a few weeks of madness again.

A future bubble would be way more muscular and the millions of people who boned themselves up the posterior on the last one would be very fast to jump back in, let alone new arrivals.

Do you reckon the exchanges have secret fire power hidden away or are they going to wilt until the whole thing keels over?

With 2x the excitement it would be a massive undertaking to handle, 5-10x and your computer might vomit into your lap when you try to log in to an exchange.

I certainly do hope that they've prepared themselves better for it this time. It should be common sense that customer demand and load on the service will be at an all time high in a bull market, when market activity is booming. They have the duty to ensure that the quality of service doesn't deteriorate as bull markets emerge, especially when it concerns the funds of customers.

But from an exchange's perspective, it's certainly no easy task to call up temporary employees just for the same of responding to a short term boom in demand, and then laying them off as the bear market approaches.

Quote from: gentlemand on April 04, 2019, 09:52:42 AM

I guess all a regular person can do is sort their verification rubbish during quiet periods and hope there isn't a problem during the busy ones.

That's a good idea, though you're likely not going to be able to tackle the other issues that come with heightened demand, like slow support times, and website lags. There is really nothing you can do, but to pick an exchange/service that is at least somewhat reputable for their work ethic.

On a side note, it also seemed like that in 2017, exchanges like Coinbase were more focused on developing new products rather than resolving existing issues with overflooding of their support system.