Major exchanges struggle as Bitcoin pumps on $1.5B Tesla investment

Major exchanges struggle as Bitcoin pumps on $1.5B Tesla investment

As usual, when Bitcoin pumps and traders need stable exchanges more than ever, some are almost guaranteed to go down. Service outages have been reported at major cryptocurrency exchanges on Feb. 8, following the news that Tesla invested $1.5 billion in Bitcoin (BTC).As Cointelegraph reported earlier, news of Tesla's sizeable investment broke after the discovery of a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. This caused Bitcoin price to jump $3,000 in a matter of minutes, eventually claiming a newall-time high of $44,850.Problems were reported at a number of exchanges,....


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