Blockchain.info Down: Experiencing Database Issues Today
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....
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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 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....
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....
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....
Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange down for you? No, it's not your neighbor hogging up all the bandwidth again. It looks like the world's number two exchange is experiencing a slew of performance issues today. A number of users on Reddit (in multiple threads - here's one) are seeing the website up and down, with the usual suspicions that the exchange is being hit with a DDOS attack. This, of course, is pure speculation. As of current, the company has not made an official statement on the cause of today's issues.