All Blockchain.info Services Have Reportedly Been Restored
Just an update to a post published on Tuesday with regard to Blockchain.info services being partially down. As of Tuesday evening, all services (which include the ever-popular web wallet) have been restored, according to a post made on the official Blockchain blog. They said: You will now be able to access the services exactly as you did before the outage. Just log in using your browser or mobile application and enter your password and second-factor authentication, if enabled. Your wallet has not been affected by the outage and everything should be exactly as you left it. The Blockchain....
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More than a day after bitcoin wallet provider Blockchain.info first indicated it was experiencing a severe outage, its services have been fully restored, a company blog post has revealed. Issues began with Blockchain noting that it had suspended SharedCoin transactions in what was initially suspected to be a short delay. However, that announcement, made on 17th March, proceeded a long period of downtime that extended into the late evening the next day. Blockchain updated users that all Blockchain services were operational again as of 10pm PST, 18th March. As of 10pm PT, 5am UTC Blockchain....
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 suffered a domain name system (DNS) hacking yesterday that sent users to the wrong servers, exposing bitcoin users’ passwords. Blockchain.info took its website offline for several hours to restore its service. The problem has been corrected and the website is now functioning. The hack occurred around 11:00 GMT as the DNS information switched from Cloudfare to a cheap host provider in Tulsa, Okla. in the United States. Bitcoin users immediately began warning one another on Twitter and Reddit. Blockchain took itself offline to reclaim its DNS records and direct users to the....
Our friends over at CoinDesk have today published an interesting piece surrounding Blockchain.info. The website, in short, is a great resource even if you're new to the community - allowing visitors to view the block chain (transaction ledger) easily and also create and use a bitcoin wallet. No surprise, but the website is the number one bitcoin-related website in the whole of the Internet. The website has reportedly grown by a whopping 50 percent in the last month alone, and is seeing upwards of 3 million unique visitors last month. As far as hosted bitcoin wallets go, Blockchain.info....
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....