Coinbase Disabled Trading Following Bitcoin Price Crash

Shortly after Bitcoin's value dropped 40 percent on Friday, crytocurrency marketplace app Coinbase temporary disabled trading. The company cites "technical difficulties" for its halt. "Due to today's high traffic, buys and sells may be temporarily offline," Coinbase wrote on the exchange's page. "We're working on restoring full availability as soon as possible." This caused many to wonder if the shutdown was legal. It is illegal for NYSE to stop trading without following the Securities and Excha...