Following Two-Day Downtime, LocalBitcoins.com Service Slowly Returns to Normal
It's been a pretty frustrating weekend for users of the popular LocalBitcoins.com. On Saturday, the site - which allows users from around the world to buy and sell bitcoins from other nearby users - went down quite suddenly. Shortly thereafter, the company released information indicating the outage related to a possible hardware issue. On Sunday, much progress hadn't been made. At approximately 10:30 AM, the company announced via their Twitter feed that it would be at least another eight hours until recovery - but that proved to be an understatement. This morning, LocalBitcoins.com made....
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Localbitcoins.com, the websites that allows users to buy and sell the digital currency in person and anonymously, is currently down. It's unclear what is causing the downtime, but for some folks, full-on panic mode has kicked in. As of this writing, we were presented with the following technical problem message: "An unrecoverable technical error has occured. We've got this error logged and will get to fixing this shortly." newsBTC has reached out to Localbitcoins.com for explanation, but did not immediately receive a response - as we guess they're busy getting things up and running again.....
Global bitcoin marketplace LocalBitcoins is operating again following over six hours of downtime it attributed to a 'hardware failure'. The company announced the outage at 20:22 UTC yesterday. By 03:02 it said the service was 'back up and running', though it appears some site functionality - including user logins - is still problematic. LocalBitcoins community manager 'Max' told Reddit the problem was related to the company's servers: "It seems a server got hung up ... We're about to move to new equipment as the current servers are quite old, sad that they had to crash before we moved."....
Having some trouble reaching LocalBitcoins.com? If so, is it just really slow? You're not the only one. The popular service - which connects buyers and sellers of bitcoin from around the world - is seemingly having technical issues once again, in what is yet another long outage that is frustrating users. Upon accessing the site (by our experimentation here), the end user is provided with a cached version of the website from Cloudflare, a denial-of-service protection and content delivery network (also in use by NEWSBTC along with many other websites on the web). The message: This page....
One of the most popular ways for users to buy and sell bitcoin has announced a change that is sure to upset German digital currency enthusiasts. LocalBitcoins.com took to their Twitter account on Monday to announce that their services will no longer be available to users in Germany. The announcement comes much to the displeasure of those reliant on the service to acquire or get rid of their bitcoins. LocalBitcoins.com has said the reason relates to "regulatory reasons," though the service didn't exactly specify which regulations were preventing them from continuing their operation in the....
Popular bitcoin buying/selling connecting service LocalBitcoins.com has been suffering from an extended outage this weekend, with its numerous users unable to access the website for hours. The service - no stranger to periods of downtime - has remained rather quiet on this issue, leaving many questions what the issue is. They have, however, shed some light. Last posting on their twitter feed eleven hours ago (as of this writing), the service estimated an estimated time of repair to be approximately two hours - apologizing to users for the inconvenience. More information came in the form of....