Blockchain.info is offline, what's wrong?

jaime

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Quote from: TimJBenham on April 18, 2013, 04:02:07 AM

Quote from: Luckybit on April 18, 2013, 02:32:50 AM

Who would benefit from killing Bitcoin the most?

What makes you think they want to kill Bitcoin? Rather than NWO/Illuminati/Banksters conspiracy theories I think the more likely explanation is the DDOS hackers are working their way down a list of the biggest dealers in bitcoin trying to shake them down. Of course they love bitcoin, yet it is in everyone's interests (except the victims and the aforementioned NWO etc) that they attack it. Bitcoin must survive this baptism of fire if it is to prove itself.

"baptism of fire" yes, but not sure about those hackers trying to prove... what?

Alexj17

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Still down for me and with all my wallets with blockchain i cannot send money from there to another address to test my websites.

Stephen Gornick

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Everything should be back online now. Again apologies for the downtime.

- https://twitter.com/blockchain/status/324963187957063681

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Quote from: bitbadger on April 18, 2013, 11:01:02 AM

I just checked blockchain.info and could reach the site without any problems.

really? It's still down for me.

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Quote from: bitbadger on April 18, 2013, 11:01:02 AM

The "this site is offline" message comes from the Cloudflare server service which I believe uses a technique to try and detect and prevent DDOS attacks on servers. It also throws up "false positives" from time to time as well. I just checked blockchain.info and could reach the site without any problems.

No. Still offline.

claes88

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I have all my money in blockchain.info wallets... But I have saved the private keys in unencrypted format quite recently.

Can someone please help me with detailed instructions how I do to restore my wallet to the bitcoin client now?

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I really wish there were some other websites offering the same APIs as blockchain.info for some addedredundancy....

...for free also of course Grin

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The "this site is offline" message comes from the Cloudflare server service which I believe uses a technique to try and detect and prevent DDOS attacks on servers. It also throws up "false positives" from time to time as well. I just checked blockchain.info and could reach the site without any problems.

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RUM AND CARROTS: A PIRATE LIFE FOR ME

Quote from: Alexj17 on April 18, 2013, 10:24:30 AM

I use blockchain to run a notification script that updates my database which in turn updates my website. with blockchain down does this effect the notification?

I would say yes.

Alexj17

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I use blockchain to run a notification script that updates my database which in turn updates my website. with blockchain down does this effect the notification?

crazy_rabbit

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RUM AND CARROTS: A PIRATE LIFE FOR ME

I keep my coins in a watched only address and import as needed.

proudhon

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As a precaution I wiped my blockchain.info wallet using MultiBit and the latest encrypted backup I had. Back to your offline wallet bitcoins, go on, get in there, go on now.

Stephen Gornick

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Should not be long now until were back. Still investigating how the attacker was able to discover our real none-cloudflare IPs.

- http://twitter.com/blockchain/status/324803593217638401

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Quote from: Luckybit on April 18, 2013, 02:32:50 AM

Who would benefit from killing Bitcoin the most?

What makes you think they want to kill Bitcoin? Rather than NWO/Illuminati/Banksters conspiracy theories I think the more likely explanation is the DDOS hackers are working their way down a list of the biggest dealers in bitcoin trying to shake them down. Of course they love bitcoin, yet it is in everyone's interests (except the victims and the aforementioned NWO etc) that they attack it. Bitcoin must survive this baptism of fire if it is to prove itself.

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Quote from: Frozenlock on April 18, 2013, 02:36:48 AM

Litecoin.

Ahahaha. Brilliant!

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Litecoin.

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Who would benefit from killing Bitcoin the most?

Khertan

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i see this morning they use now cloudfare, so i suppose an other ddos against another bitcoin site, after mtgox, bitcoin-central, slush pool, now bitcoin-central look like someone try to crash the bitcoin economy

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Quote from: goldlyre on April 17, 2013, 11:33:01 PM

Blockchain.info is currently offline, what's wrong? Is it a grave problem, or else only a minor one?

Not sure.

If you need access to your funds and have the encrypted backups (e.g., sent via e-mail if you've configured it for that), then you can either import the wallet.json.aes into Multibit, or you can manually decrypt the private keys and import them into Bitcoin-Qt.

import of blockchain.info AES encrypted key to 0.8
- https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/import-of-blockchaininfo-aes-encrypted-key-to-08-150699

- http://multibit.org/help_importingPrivateKeys.html
- https://gist.github.com/fcicq/3368495

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