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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...
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...
Our Man in Shanghai: DogeMania, ‘Dog-Coin’ trademark dogfight, hashrate outage, government warms up to crypto
23.4.2021
Global BTC hashrates still down over 15% following accident, Dogecoin the subject of trademark applications, and government official mentions BTC as an investment alternative
Did a massive Chinese power outage cause Bitcoin’s crash down to $50k?
19.4.2021
On-chain analyst Willy Woo argues a massive power outage in Chinese mining hub Xinjiang drove Bitcoin’s violent crash down to $50,000
Users of top Indian crypto exchange report seeing '0' funds during outage
5.4.2021
"The load on our systems are way too much," said CEO Nischal Shetty
Blockchain.com's Outage, Bitcoin's Vouchers, Cards & ETFs + More News
9.3.2021
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
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Major crypto wallet Blockchain.com said they're experiencing "an issue that’s preventing many people from accessing their...
Fantom brushes off network outage with another 30% price surge
1.3.2021
With over 3,000% growth since the turn of the year, even a recent network outage couldn't stop Fantom's bullish surge
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....
Coinbase outage caused crypto purchase issues, not an intentional ban
5.2.2021
Coinbase posted an in-depth explanation of its Jan. 29 platform difficulties
Coinbase Suffers ‘Connectivity Issues’ Again as Bitcoin Hits Another Record
7.1.2021
Bitcoin suffered the same issues yesterday, which lasted six hours
Coinbase Is Down, Experiencing ‘Connectivity Issues’
6.1.2021
The homepage of the popular cryptocurrency exchange is currently inaccessible
Filecoin network suffers temporary outage
21.12.2020
The Filecoin network is recovering as miners upgrade to a new client after a four-hour network outage
Massive Google Outage Shows Why Decentralization Is Better
14.12.2020
Multiple Google services around the world went down today at around UTC 12pm – leaving millions of people around the planet with no access to their YouTube, Gmail, and Google Docs accounts – while users of decentralized tech like Bitcoin (BTC) carried on with business as usual.
Web users were left...