The Bitcoin Forum At Bitcointalk.org Is Currently Offline Due to DOS
Bitcointalk.org, the Bitcoin Forum, is currently offline with the official explanation being a DOS attack. In the past, Bitcointalk.org has faced hacks, man-in-the-middle attacks, and DDOS. According to isitdownrightnow, a service that tells you the status of websites worldwide, bitcointalk.org has been down since at least 17:00 PT. This is corroborated by the first reports on twitter of the bitcointalk.org outage: is @bitcointalk forum down? - digit (@_digit_) November 14, 2014. @bitcointalk is down! - Tetcoin (@Tetcoin) November 14, 2014. In the meantime, users can use Bitcointa.lk,....
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