Breaking: Blockchain Outage And Cause Of The Issue
As you may already know, Blockchain went down 03/17/14 unexpectedly, the company responded saying that: “stuck”. The particular transaction in question is https://blockchain.info/tx-index/115315411/10. Rebroadcasting this transaction in bitcoind results, in Error code -22.” The issue was not clearly known until Blockchain released a detailed report today. They said the cause of the outages were as follows: “On Monday March 17th, Blockchain services experienced a series of technical issues that originated from a database error and resulted in the suspension of services. The issue was....
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