Cryptocurrency Exchange MintPal Offline Longer Than Expected: Back Now

Cryptocurrency Exchange MintPal Offline Longer Than Expected: Back Now

Popular cryptocurrency exchange MintPal has been trying to migrate to their Version Two platform since Friday, October 3. The platform is a highly trafficked source of bitcoin and alternative coin trading, but was not functioning up until Monday due to unforeseen issues on the backend. At the beginning of the migration, the Moopay LTD team, the new parent company of MintPal, hoped that the migration would be nearly seamless. When the site was down for longer than the promised 24 hours, CEO Alex Green posted an announcement on the progress, saying: "We will be taking this weekend (which is....


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