Blockchain.info Services Still Down as Team Continues Restorative Maintenance
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....
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Blockchain.info has stated that the issue is a database one, and the site would not be back online for at least several hours. It all started earlier today when Redditor /u/obione88 posted to /r/Bitcoin about a Shared Coin Transaction Error. Blockchain.info staff on Reddit promptly responded to the post. Additionally, they announced that the SharedCoin feature would be taken offline while they investigated. Soon after, Blockchain.info posted to their blog that SharedCoin would be suspended temporarily. They also provided answers as to the specific issue that was causing issues with the....
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....
Blockchain.info reported a DNS attack yesterday, forcing the platform to go offline for few hours. Blockchain.info is the latest victim of a cyber-attack. The Blockchain tools and wallet service provider reported a security breach affecting its DNS servers yesterday. According to the company’s statement, the attack happened at around 5:42 AM EST after an unknown attacker managed to access the DNS servers belonging to Blockchain.info. The attack led to a temporary outage of services which was later rectified by the Blockchain’s team. The company, in its blog post, claims that the attack was....
The folks over at Blockchain.info have acquired bitcoin price application ZeroBlock (LLC), as noted in an announcement this Christmas Eve. The mobile application (available on both Android and iOS) provides the end user with the latest news, price quotes, and more. Dan Held, ZeroBlock's developer, will be joining the Blockchain.info team as a product manager, as part of the acquisition. It being the most-viewed bitcoin application on the Apple App Store, it's easy to see Blockchain.info's interest in the app. Blockchain.info say that the acquisition of the app is part of their "very....