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Was their any actual limit to moving Bitcoins held in Coinbase to another wallet/software? If there are why is it a problem now and not always?

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Yes, Coinbase limits BTC withdrawals based on current USD value. A lot of traders lost money because they couldn't get their funds out in time. Coinbase will likely get sued and it'll cost them.

No not witdrawals. Is there a Coinbase imposed limit to how many Bitcoins I can send to another wallet? And was that recently implemented?

Coinbase certainly has conversion limits, but anyone that wanted their Bitcoin into Dollars knew about this limit far before the warning of Coinbase only supporting one side of the split, and converting into Dollars means you don't want to risk the split and you should have been diversifying far before Coinbases announcement.

>Is there a Coinbase imposed limit to how many Bitcoins I can send to another wallet?

"Sending to another wallet" IS a withdrawal.

Yes. Coinbase calls BTC transfers withdrawals, and it screwed me over a lot when I found that out.

OK, good to know I was just having issues with the terminology.

I think the limit the other commenters are mentioning are only for moving bitcoins out of GDAX, their exchange. I don't think there is a limit to how much you can withdraw from a wallet directly on coinbase not on the exchange

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