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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: XxWINxX94x23 on March 12, 2013, 11:10 pm

Title: Blockchain.info currently unavaliable/down
Post by: XxWINxX94x23 on March 12, 2013, 11:10 pm
blockchain.info is currently down because of a DDoS attack, according to their Twitter page. Just sent a bunch of coins there, hope everything is OK. You can't access any part of the site currently, they say they are working on it. Just passing along the info!

Title: Re: Blockchain.info currently unavaliable/down
Post by: SelfSovereignty on March 12, 2013, 11:36 pm
I'm absolutely dumb struck that the price of Bitcoins hasn't dropped to nothing over the past 48 hours.  I mean it's almost unbelievable to me.  If they can survive this... fuck it man, I've got to seriously consider going all in or something...

Anyway, thanks for the info :)
Title: Re: Blockchain.info currently unavaliable/down
Post by: ChemCat on March 12, 2013, 11:57 pm
it went down as i was nearing the end of a transaction and lemme tell ya...it freaked me out  LOL
but after about 10 minutes i had my coins.  :)

is blockchain.info used to just track BTC's?

i'm a lil dense here  LOL  :p


Peace,

ChemCat


8)
Title: Re: Blockchain.info currently unavaliable/down
Post by: astor on March 13, 2013, 12:06 am
Quote from: XxWINxX94x23 on March 12, 2013, 11:10 pm
blockchain.info is currently down because of a DDoS attack, according to their Twitter page. Just sent a bunch of coins there, hope everything is OK. You can't access any part of the site currently, they say they are working on it. Just passing along the info!

Situations like this are why you should enable the "automatically email my encrypted wallet to me after any changes" feature. Then you could import your wallet to another service.

No reason you couldn't use a TorMail address.
Title: Re: Blockchain.info currently unavaliable/down
Post by: TheMajor on March 13, 2013, 12:07 am
blockchain.info has a very popular BTC wallet that many people use.  They used to have a btc mixer service as well,  but it is my understanding that they discontinued that recently.
Title: Re: Blockchain.info currently unavaliable/down
Post by: astor on March 13, 2013, 12:09 am
The mixer still exists but it's called a "shared" address now. It's under the Shared tab of your receiving addresses.

They also lowered the fee from 1.5% to 0.5%.
Title: Re: Blockchain.info currently unavaliable/down
Post by: anonom on March 13, 2013, 12:43 am
If they are getting DDOSed, it's probably only their front-end that will be affected.

I don't think they would have place their BTC daemons right on the same server hosting the wallets and everything.

I wouldn't be too worried about your BTC transactions to them.
Title: Re: Blockchain.info currently unavaliable/down
Post by: XxWINxX94x23 on March 13, 2013, 01:05 am
Thanks for the input guys, its back up now and I sent my coins to SR! Will update if there are any issues.