LocalBitcoins.com Experiences More Downtime, Slow Performance
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....
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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....
The process of purchasing bitcoins on a LocalBitcoins ATM will not require an Internet connection. It seems a few arrests in Florida are not going to slow down progress over at LocalBitcoins. LocalBitcoins ATMs are now in production, and users will soon be able to make local trades without having to find a human counterparty. Their ATMs will allow anyone to buy or sell bitcoins, and the most amazing feature of these new devices might be that they don't require an Internet connection to function. Instead of connecting with your phone, the LocalBitcoins ATM will give a user a redeemable code....
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."....
LocalBitcoins.com users remain at a stand still as we're well into the second day of a major outage that has brought down the popular bitcoin buying/selling service. The Swedish-based company remained rather quiet on the issue Saturday, simply noting that there was a "possible hardware issue" - but as of today, the company has placed a banner on their site saying: "Crap. The site is unavailable." LocalBitcoins took the opportunity to make the following points: The issue started on Saturday evening (in Central European Time). The issue is not in the least security related. The problem has....