Traffic to Binance surges to record highs, site goes down for maintenance
Binance suffered an outage today after announcing consecutive new all-time highs for web traffic. Leading crypto asset exchange Binance was forced to suspend its spot and margin trading services just a few minutes after its CEO took to Twitter to boast the platform had smoothly handled new record highs for website traffic.Binance chief executive Changpeng Zhao, or CZ, tweeted the exchange had experienced a new all-time high for traffic on Feb.10, stating the platform had “handled the load” of a 60% increase in traffic on top of the previous day's record traffic. CZ also noted that new....
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