Cloudflare Outage Just Made Everyone Paranoid: But Blockchain Kept Working—CZ
DDoS protection giant Cloudflare just went out, paralyzing major corners of the internet. Yet, blockchain networks like Bitcoin remain resilient. Blockchain Stays Online Even As Cloudflare Experiences Outage Today, Cloudflare suffered a global network issue, causing major services connected to it to slow down or outright stop working. According to the website’s status tracker, it […]
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Users attempting to visit certain websites were met with a “500 Internal Server Error” notice due to a Cloudflare outage. Cloudflare, a significant infrastructure provider for the internet, recently experienced widespread problems, leaving many crypto exchanges down.The content delivery network (CDN) confirmed via an update posted on Tuesday that it is experiencing issues with its services and network, and a fix is currently being implemented. However, the firm has yet to provide information regarding what went wrong, causing services across the world to come to a halt.Cryptocurrency....
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Content delivery network Cloudflare may be poised to accept bitcoin in the near future. Twitter user @CakeBet asked the company's CEO on Twitter whether or not they accepted bitcoin as a form of payment. "Not yet," responded Matthew Prince, who heads the company. Prince was then asked if there were any plans in the works with regard to adding bitcoin, and replied by noting that the company "promised" they'd integrate PayPal first. However, Cloudflare is looking to add both PayPal and bitcoin simultaneously. The announcement of acceptance could very well be a great thing for the company.....
Most bitcoin service providers currently use one single company for all their CDN and DNS services: CloudFlare Inc. Based in California, CloudFlare has access to all HTTPS traffic from multiple bitcoin services. Worse, CloudFlare also receives unencrypted traffic from these sites. This can provide internet black hats with the chance to attack all these bitcoin sites from one location. What's the problem? The use of one centralized network security company is simply irresistible to hackers and even government agencies looking to snoop around. If CloudFlare was hacked, bitcoin users would....
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....