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hopelessinvestor

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Quote from: bitcoinscanada on April 18, 2013, 02:46:27 PM

Quote from: killingtime on April 18, 2013, 01:25:56 PM

Makes me re-think using something like this for a wallet. While I don't have all that many BTC on blockchain.info's wallet, it's still frustrating to not have access. So convenient though.

Agreed, unfortunately. There seems to be concerted effort to disrupt the Bitcoin network lately.

I agree with you. Lots of random bitcoin related websites have been getting hit hard in sequential turn. Seems like someone or some group is trying to send a message.

biosupdate

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Quote from: killingtime on April 18, 2013, 01:41:14 PM

Quote from: hopelessinvestor on April 18, 2013, 01:30:44 PM

According to blockchain's twitter, they are being targetted heavily by massive DDOS attacks so their servers are going to be denying service for a bit. Probably since bitfoor is now out of the game, malicious hackers are probably routing their botnets to target blockchain in an attempt to drop BTC value, which the price only seems to be going up, hah.

So many people cry "DDoS" these days. Is it really malicious intent? Or do people simply not understand just how much legitimate volume can be directed at a website. It seems like 5 or 6 major pools seem to complain about this in recent days as well as exchanges and service sites. That's a lot of DDoS'n to be going down.

Real DDOS attacks are going on against multiple bitcoin sites.

Check out this link: https://community.rapid7.com/community/infosec/blog/2013/04/12/botnets-and-the-war-on-bitcoin

bitcoinscanada

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Quote from: killingtime on April 18, 2013, 01:25:56 PM

Makes me re-think using something like this for a wallet. While I don't have all that many BTC on blockchain.info's wallet, it's still frustrating to not have access. So convenient though.

Agreed, unfortunately. There seems to be concerted effort to disrupt the Bitcoin network lately.

ErebusBat

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Quote from: hopelessinvestor on April 18, 2013, 02:29:09 PM

Quote from: killingtime on April 18, 2013, 01:41:14 PM

Quote from: hopelessinvestor on April 18, 2013, 01:30:44 PM

According to blockchain's twitter, they are being targetted heavily by massive DDOS attacks so their servers are going to be denying service for a bit. Probably since bitfoor is now out of the game, malicious hackers are probably routing their botnets to target blockchain in an attempt to drop BTC value, which the price only seems to be going up, hah.

So many people cry "DDoS" these days. Is it really malicious intent? Or do people simply not understand just how much legitimate volume can be directed at a website. It seems like 5 or 6 major pools seem to complain about this in recent days as well as exchanges and service sites. That's a lot of DDoS'n to be going down.

You have to understand that most business websites are built upon platforms designed to allow so many legitamite views. For example. SITE A has an average of 100,000 views second. SITE A can withstand 1,000,000 views per second. But SITE A is being hit with 10,000,000 views per second. Can you claim all those views are legitimate views? Therefore it is most likely a coordinated DDOS attack from some botnet.

It is a DDOS:

https://twitter.com/blockchain/status/324785363002458112

hopelessinvestor

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Quote from: killingtime on April 18, 2013, 01:41:14 PM

Quote from: hopelessinvestor on April 18, 2013, 01:30:44 PM

According to blockchain's twitter, they are being targetted heavily by massive DDOS attacks so their servers are going to be denying service for a bit. Probably since bitfoor is now out of the game, malicious hackers are probably routing their botnets to target blockchain in an attempt to drop BTC value, which the price only seems to be going up, hah.

So many people cry "DDoS" these days. Is it really malicious intent? Or do people simply not understand just how much legitimate volume can be directed at a website. It seems like 5 or 6 major pools seem to complain about this in recent days as well as exchanges and service sites. That's a lot of DDoS'n to be going down.

You have to understand that most business websites are built upon platforms designed to allow so many legitamite views. For example. SITE A has an average of 100,000 views second. SITE A can withstand 1,000,000 views per second. But SITE A is being hit with 10,000,000 views per second. Can you claim all those views are legitimate views? Therefore it is most likely a coordinated DDOS attack from some botnet.

Gabi

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Since everyone surely backuped the wallet, there is no problem if it is down, am i right?

methinx

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Quote from: skat23 on April 18, 2013, 01:37:26 PM

Now blockchain.info is working! (at least for me!)

It's not working here. I'm getting a page a message "website unavailable" from CloudFlare.

killingtime

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Quote from: hopelessinvestor on April 18, 2013, 01:30:44 PM

According to blockchain's twitter, they are being targetted heavily by massive DDOS attacks so their servers are going to be denying service for a bit. Probably since bitfoor is now out of the game, malicious hackers are probably routing their botnets to target blockchain in an attempt to drop BTC value, which the price only seems to be going up, hah.

So many people cry "DDoS" these days. Is it really malicious intent? Or do people simply not understand just how much legitimate volume can be directed at a website. It seems like 5 or 6 major pools seem to complain about this in recent days as well as exchanges and service sites. That's a lot of DDoS'n to be going down.

skat23

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Now blockchain.info is working! (at least for me!)

onyoko

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I just registed and luckily I did not put any thing in blockchain. Better to keep my wallet in my wallet

hopelessinvestor

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According to blockchain's twitter, they are being targetted heavily by massive DDOS attacks so their servers are going to be denying service for a bit. Probably since bitfoor is now out of the game, malicious hackers are probably routing their botnets to target blockchain in an attempt to drop BTC value, which the price only seems to be going up, hah.

JordanL

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Quote from: killingtime on April 18, 2013, 01:25:56 PM

Makes me re-think using something like this for a wallet. While I don't have all that many BTC on blockchain.info's wallet, it's still frustrating to not have access. So convenient though.

This exactly. I started using blockchain.info as a hot wallet for some transactions, and as the main place I monitor my transactions, but relying on them for that means this downtime of theirs has been a huge hassle for me.

killingtime

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Makes me re-think using something like this for a wallet. While I don't have all that many BTC on blockchain.info's wallet, it's still frustrating to not have access. So convenient though.

th3joker

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It's a real shame I have the iphone app and its uber easy to use, that and two stage authentication make it seem a pretty good online wallet for 'current accounts'

It's been up and down quite a bit the last few days, are hey getting ddos'ed or is it something else?

whatsgoingon

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Site been down over 10 hours.

ankingblast

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I can confirmed that the site is still down at this moment.

Went to the page and saw:
This page (http://blockchain.info/) is currently offline. However, because the site uses CloudFlare's Always Online™ technology you can continue to surf a snapshot of the site. We will keep checking in the background and, as soon as the site comes back, you will automatically be served the live version. Always Online™ is powered by CloudFlare | Hide this Alert

antekh

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I have this error when trying to access it:

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This page (http://blockchain.info/) is currently offline. However, because the site uses CloudFlare's Always Online™ technology you can continue to surf a snapshot of the site. We will keep checking in the background and, as soon as the site comes back, you will automatically be served the live version. Always Online™ is powered by CloudFlare | Hide this Alert

marc000

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I am unable to access blockchain.info for at least 8 hours. Are there any known Problems?

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