Pollak said the company had used horizontal scaling on the database side of things, spacing out its databases to allow for more reads while still letting writes continue unimpeded. That means the firm can view data on its servers and also add new data without slowing things down as transactions continue. As the traffic surges for Coinbase, the firm has to deal with the same new issues every company is facing, like remote-work orders and the state-mandated lockdown order put into place last week in California, where the firm is based. Pollak said the remote-work order had been managed so far through the use of chat rooms and automated alerts. He said if the company saw that sales were spiking, they'd have people ready and waiting in a chat room, monitoring things in real time. Pollak said that the scaling process had been "really freaking hard," crediting the success last week to the hard work of Coinbase's team.