Having Trouble Accessing Bitstamp? You're Not The Only One
Just a reminder brought to you by your friends at newsBTC. If you're having trouble getting access to Bitstamp today, you're not the only one. The exchange's website has been up and down this afternoon due to unknown reasons. It's very much the center of much paranoia, with some even speculating they've been forced to shut down by a government entity. Of course, that doesn't seem to be the case. As of this writing, the website appears to be up, but with flaky performance. Bitstamp did not immediately respond to an inquiry regarding the downtime from newsBTC. If we receive a statement,....
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It's not just you, folks. BitStamp appears to be down at the moment. A number of users on Reddit have reported issues accessing the Bitcoin exchange's website in the past hour or so. No indication as to what the issue is, but users are greeted with an "Internal Server Error" upon accessing the website. Perhaps not the friendliest of messages in the midst of a crucial trading period. We'll update this post just as soon as we have more information on the outage. Update [12:28PM Eastern]: Looks like the website is up, but with spotty performance.
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