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After Solana’s Co-Founder Said BTC Should Change Its Consensus Algo, Solana Mainnet Loses Consensus for 7 Hours
1.5.2022
While Ethereum users participating in the Otherside metaverse land sale caused network fees to rise and created issues for the blockchain explorer Etherscan, it overshadowed Solana’s blockchain network outage. It seems a flood of inbound transactions on Saturday caused Solana’s...
Metamask Users Complain About Connection Issues as Wallet’s Default Endpoint Suffers From ‘Major Outage’
22.4.2022
On Friday, users leveraging the Web3 wallet Metamask complained about service outages after Infura, Metamask’s default endpoint suffered from a “major outage.” The wallet company addressed the situation and explained the problems were due to Infura combating an outage. Metamask...
Bitfinex Exchange Back Online After ‘Issues’ Cause 2-Hour Outage
19.4.2022
The platform underwent maintenance after trading was halted
Polygon network suffers from extended service outage after upgrade
11.3.2022
The layer-2 scaling solution has been down for over 11 hours as users are wondering what the hold-up is on fixing a bug that compromised network consensus
Caribbean CBDC Functional Again After Two-Month Outage
10.3.2022
A digital version of the Eastern Caribbean dollar (XCD) known as DCash is working again as of Wednesday, after being down for almost two months due to a technical glitch.
The central bank digital currency (CBDC), issued by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB), has been offline since...
Arbitrum network suffers minor outage due to hardware failure
10.1.2022
A seven-hour Sequencer outage prevented transactions from being processed for the period, but all is operational again at the time of press
AWS outage hits dYdX raising concerns over decentralization
10.12.2021
Traders could do nothing but wait on Dec. 7 when dYdX went down along with Binance.US and Coinbase due to an AWS problem
Amazon Web Services Outage Affects Several Major Games
7.12.2021
Amazon Web Services, upon which much of the internet is built, is experiencing issues with its biggest hub of data centers. Naturally, this means a lot of folks are having trouble logging into and playing some of their favorite games.Read more
Salvadoran Ecologist Claims Nayib Bukele’s Volcano-Powered Bitcoin Mine Will ‘End in Environmental Disaster’
6.12.2021
El Salvador’s leading ecologist Ricardo Navarro believes that mining bitcoin with a volcano, or geothermal energy, will “end in environmental disaster.” Navarro believes geothermal energy costs more than oil, and thinks El Salvador’s millennial president Nayib...
Better call SOL: Month-long consolidation puts Solana price en route to $275
15.10.2021
SOL has been forming a Bull Pennant following its 14,200% year-to-date price rally
Blockstream’s Liquid Sidechain Criticized Over Long Outage — Block Signing Issue Related to Upgrade
6.10.2021
On Tuesday, cryptocurrency supporters on social media and forums discussed Blockstream’s Liquid sidechain product as block signing had been down for over 20 hours. While Blockstream had noted the sidechain was undergoing a hard fork upgrade planned for October 5, a number of crypto...
Massive Facebook Outage Brings Down Gaming In Its Wake
4.10.2021
Facebook could not be more down right now. As the world gets a taste of the alternative reality where Mark Zuckerberg played sports in college, we’re also learning just how much of our lives are entangled in the Facebook empire. As far as gaming goes, if you were hoping to pick up that new game...
Salvadoran President Shares Video of Volcano-Powered Bitcoin Mining Facility
29.9.2021
On Tuesday, Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele shared a video of a bitcoin mine operating adjacent to a volcano. Bukele discussed the volcano-powered bitcoin mining on June 9 when he talked about the “95MW of 100% clean, 0 emissions geothermal energy from our volcanos.”...
Solana-Powered Defi Platform Orca Raises $18 Million — AMM Commands Over $300 Million TVL
23.9.2021
The decentralized exchange (dex) platform Orca has announced the platform has raised $18 million in a Series A financing round with Polychain, Placeholder, and Three Arrows co-leading the funding. The dex platform is a Solana-based project that aims to be the “go-to swap” platform...
Solana Resists Selling as Details on Network Outage Emerge
21.9.2021
SOL was up by almost 4% over the past 24 hours to trade at a price of USD 142.91. The rise came on a mostly red day in the broader crypto market, with bitcoin (BTC) trading down by almost 2% a
Biggest Bank in Venezuela Suffers 5 Day Outage After Hack Attempt
21.9.2021
The Bank of Venezuela, one of the biggest state banks in the country, is now experiencing an outage that has left its customers without services for five days. The bank published a PR statement stating this was the result of a “terrorist attack” on the national financial system, being...
Solana attributes major outage to denial-of-service attack targeting DEX offering
21.9.2021
The Solana Foundation says bots spammed the Grape Protocol IDO on Raydium with 400,000 transactions per second, bringing the network to its knees
Solana chart 'bull flag' eyes $250 despite SOL price down 40% since last week
17.9.2021
Meanwhile, the SOL's latest downside move forms a classic bullish continuation structure, with a profit target above $250
Binance crypto exchange outage sparks outrage as traders lose millions
19.8.2021
Binance's policy allows investors to get compensation on trading losses due to system or internal issues, but does not cover the “what could have been” situations
Sony Japan Recommends Two-Step Sign-in After PSN Account Takeovers
14.7.2021
While two-factor authentictaion is not new to the PlayStation Network, today the official Ask PlayStation Japanese Twitter account recommended the verification progress be used for logging in. As website Game Impress Watch reports, there have been “many reports” from users of accounts being taken...