Bitstamp Suffers Banking Software Issue and Site Downtime
Bitstamp CEO Nejc Kodrič has been in touch to say he was incorrect in his earlier statement, which revealed the site was under a DDoS attack. He now says the site merely experienced a "network issue". The company has upgraded its server capabilities and ordered additional servers to triple the power of the network, which will be delivered on Monday. "We have been DDoS-ed today and yesterday. But it did not interrupt our service," he added. Bitstamp's website has been experiencing a number of difficulties over the past couple of days. Yesterday, the Slovenia-based company experienced....
Related News
The price of bitcoin on Bitstamp has increased to above the level listed on Mt. Gox. Japan-based exchange Mt. Gox is notorious for showing a much higher USD bitcoin price than its competitors, but this has changed over the past 12 hours. At around 05:30 GMT today, Bitstamp recorded a price of $717.98, compared with $714 on Mt. Gox. Mt. Gox then overtook for the next nine hours, but the Bitstamp price has been almost consistently higher since around 14:15 GMT. Bitstamp CEO Nejc Kodrič described this occurrence as "weird" and suggested it could be to do with the problems his company's site....
Some of the Bitcoin community has been abuzz with BitStamp issues this week. Just yesterday, the Bitcoin exchange's website went down for a short period. The company noted they were having issues with their banking software, though it's unclear just what the issues are/were. Today, BitStamp has noted the banking issues have been resolved and transfers are being processed normally on a blog post, which should comes as a relief to traders around the world. Are you - a BitStamp user - still having issues?
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....
Mt. Gox has stopped bitcoin deposits and all internal bitcoin transfers for a short site maintenance update, roughly from 6pm to 12am Japan time on 15th February. According to a notice posted on Gox's News page, the downtime is part of its implementation of a solution to the 'transaction malleability' issue that has seen the exchange halt all external bitcoin withdrawals and face criticism from some sectors of the bitcoin economy. The downtime probably won't affect too many users. With Mt. Gox's bitcoin price now hovering around the $342 mark (at least $300 below the CoinDesk BPI) and the....
LocalBitcoins.com users remain at a stand still as we're well into the second day of a major outage that has brought down the popular bitcoin buying/selling service. The Swedish-based company remained rather quiet on the issue Saturday, simply noting that there was a "possible hardware issue" - but as of today, the company has placed a banner on their site saying: "Crap. The site is unavailable." LocalBitcoins took the opportunity to make the following points: The issue started on Saturday evening (in Central European Time). The issue is not in the least security related. The problem has....