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Bitcoin Hashrate Slides- Low BTC Prices, Sichuan Wet Season, Upcoming Difficulty Spike to Blame
20.5.2021
While bitcoin prices plummeted this week, the network’s hashrate has also dropped considerably since tapping a high on May 9. Since then, the hashrate has seen swings between 10-15% because of the crypto market downturn, alleged issues with alleged power outages in Sichuan, China, and...
Avalanche Web Wallet Stalls For 6 Hours After Avalaunch Airdrop Snapshot
4.5.2021
The Avalanche cryptocurrency, the first cryptocurrency ever to implement the Avalanche consensus, experienced an outage of service yesterday when its web wallet presented an outage that lasted for six hours. This was the consequence of severe congestion due to an airdrop carried out by AvaLaunch...
2021’s Largest Epoch Drop: Bitcoin Network’s Mining Difficulty Dips Over 12%, Hashrate Nears 200 Exahash
2.5.2021
Bitcoin’s mining difficulty has seen a massive drop this week, as the metric slid 12.6% and was the largest difficulty drop in 2021. The mining difficulty decline follows the recent electrical outages in China which had affected the network’s hashrate to some degree. Following...
Crypto Exchanges Scale, But Outages Likely To Remain A Fact Of Life
27.2.2021
Exchanges have been the epicenter of the recent crypto bull market, facilitating the surge of bitcoin (BTC) and other coins towards new all-time highs. However, while they have almost certainly profited from the record prices and volumes the market’s now witnessing, many have been found lacking...
Bitcoin mining likely didn't contribute to Texas' power outages, says expert
23.2.2021
Kristy-Leigh Minehan said the state doesn't currently have enough mining infrastructure to cause significant problems for the power supply
Video Game Studios Across Texas Have Temporarily Closed Due To Winter Storms And Power Outages
19.2.2021
Texas, a state whose leadership has long espoused a hyper-individualistic Mad Max apocalypse sort of ethos, has spent the past week putting those ideals to the test. It has not fared well. A record-breaking winter storm led to power outages across the state, as well as food and water shortages....
Top Crypto Exchanges Experience Difficulties as Tesla News Prompts Trading Frenzy
8.2.2021
Binance, Coinbase, Gemini and Kraken are all having technical difficulties under heavy trading load
Kraken, Coinbase Suffer Outages Amid Market Volatility
29.1.2021
Spillover from market drama on Wall Street is crippling U.S. exchanges
Thai Financial Watchdog Asks Local Crypto Exchange to Fix Issues After Three Massive Outages
22.1.2021
The Securities and Exchange Commission of Thailand (SEC) issued an order against a local cryptocurrency exchange to temporarily stop its operations. Bitkub has been in the headlines since the start of the year due to several outages suffered in their systems. Crypto Exchange Suffered Three Massive...
Thai SEC Tells Bitkub Crypto Exchange to Improve Platform After Trading Outages
20.1.2021
The financial regulator ordered the Bitkub exchange to close and fix issues that caused several outages as prices spiked this month
Coinbase Redoing Infrastructure to Prevent Outages During Peak Times
17.1.2021
The exchange also said it's working to improve its customer service response time, another source of complaints
Coinbase Issues a Public Apology to EU and UK Customers — Did Not Address Its Global Issues
15.1.2021
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase published a statement addressing their U.K. and E.U. customers, apologizing for system outages and account restrictions. The company also recognized their customer support “has not been at the levels” expected. High Flow of Incoming Customers According...
Ignoring Outages, Coinbase Futures Set Record Highs as Bitcoin Rally Continues
7.1.2021
CBSE futures on FTX hit $311 Thursday afternoon
Binance and Coinbase suffer outages as Bitcoin's price soars
16.12.2020
Bitcoin’s much-anticipated break past $20,000 caused a spike in crypto exchange traffic
Bitcoin go up, Coinbase go down: Exchange outages and trader outrage
23.11.2020
Coinbase has suffered multiple outages since March, often coinciding with volatile Bitcoin trading days
Exchange Outages Are Going Mainstream: What Robinhood Can Learn From Crypto
1.9.2020
With popular online trading platforms hit by more outages amid high volumes, companies like Robinhood may learn something from crypto exchanges
After Tumultuous Election, Belarus Goes Offline
10.8.2020
Internet is down in Belarus as people are protesting the results of presidential election
Coinbase Outlines Tech Plan to Help Avert Future Outages
8.6.2020
After another traffic spike caused a temporary shut down of its exchange service and angered users, Coinbase said it's working on improvements
Coinbase, Kraken Suffer Temporary Outages as Bitcoin Soars as High as $8,900
29.4.2020
Coinbase experienced a temporary outage as daily volume spiked to over $320 million amid bitcoin’s rally to $8,900
Crypto Trading App Robinhood Reportedly Seeks $250M After March Outages
20.4.2020
After major system outages in March, Robinhood is reportedly raising $250 million from investors like Sequoia Capital