Blockchain.info Down Due to Database Issue, May Take Several Hours to Come Back Online
A public service announcement for anyone trying to use the Blockchain.info website this evening. The site, as you may have noticed, is down - showing "We Will Be Back Shortly" to anyone who visits. According to Blockchain.info, the downtime relates to a database issue: We are experiencing a database issue at the moment and may take a several hours to come back fully online. Sorry for the inconvenience! Thankfully, Blockchain.info has a very competent and experienced staff, so it should only be a short matter of time before services are restored to a normal state. In the meantime, if you're....
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Updated: Blockchain has announced service has been restored. Having some trouble reaching Blockchain.info today? You are most certainly not alone. Scores of users are having issues reaching the website this afternoon - making the web's most popular bitcoin website nothing more than a closed door. The issues, according to Blockchain, involve a database issue. Wrote the company on their official Twitter account in the last hour: Users: We're currently investigating a database issue, which has resulted in downtime. We will keep you updated as we learn more. As one would expect, it's far too....
The bitcoin wallet and block explorer service Blockchain.info has been down since late last night (17th March) and it seems the issue is bigger than originally anticipated. A problem first came to light when a reddit user started a thread about a failed 'shared coin' transaction. Blockchain.info responded to his post and quickly moved to disable shared coin functionality. The move was followed with a tweet letting users know that shared coin transactions had been suspended pending the outcome of an investigation: "We have temporarily suspended shared coin transactions while investigating....
The world's most popular Bitcoin wallet with more than 8 mln Blockchain wallet users is down. As at the time of this publication, Blockchain.info has been down for more than four hours. The web server reports a bad gateway error, with a message on the website’s landing page that says: “Looks like our site is down. We're working on it and should be back up soon”. A tweet from the wallet says they are looking into a DNS issue. In another tweet, they say they are making progress with resolving the issue but need several hours to fully restore services. However, as expected, since many users....
What seemed like would be a very short period of downtime on Monday has turned out to be quite a long-lasting outage for Blockchain.info - the most popular bitcoin-related website that offers a block chain explorer and a web-based wallet service. The team reports (via the official Blockchain.info blog) that "a series of technical issues that originated from a database error and resulted in suspension of services." The team enforces that the service interruption was not the result of any malicious behavior (like a hack), and notes that "It was simply the result of an obscure bug and a....