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Topic: Hurricane on East Coast - possible Bitcoin service disruptions - page 2. (Read 3336 times)

legendary
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The rain is picking up here a little west of Albany, NY. Wind isn't much of an issue yet. Hopefully the power stays on or I'll be down in my basement raising up my rigs because no power=no sump pump Sad

UPDATE: Rain still coming down steadily, having occasional wind gusts, and the lights are flickering every once in a while. Decided to go ahead and shut down my rigs and bring them upstairs, rather lose a coin or two instead of 3 rigs

UPDATE #2: Made it thru the night okay. We had high winds til sometime after midnight (when I fell asleep) but no power outages or damage. I managed to get one of my 1 Gh/s rigs connected to wireless last night but I left another 1.6 Gh/s offline due to lack of wireless adapters lol. Since everything is apart I'll take some time today to reorganize my setup. Good luck to everyone dealing with damages.
legendary
Activity: 1078
Merit: 1000
Charlie 'Van Bitcoin' Shrem
but  the bitinstant servers are not located in brooklyn are they?

Is the service hosted in a location in the path of the storm?

Nope lol

We're hosted on a few servers on opposite ends of the country and in the cloud

When you go to BitInstant.com, our load balancer will direct you to the closest available or best performing server.

Based on location, speed, efficiency, outages, ect.

If 1 server goes down, you won't feel it.

We can easily boot up more if needed be.
BCB
vip
Activity: 1078
Merit: 1002
BCJ
but  the bitinstant servers are not located in brooklyn are they?

Is the service hosted in a location in the path of the storm?
legendary
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Merit: 1000
Bitcoin
legendary
Activity: 1078
Merit: 1000
Charlie 'Van Bitcoin' Shrem
legendary
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Merit: 1000
How ugly is it getting there now? Anyone able to post some pics?

Do you want a picture that bad? LI isn't getting hit as hard as NYC but it is bad, high winds a lot of rain dark grey sky. Not a cake walk.
legendary
Activity: 1470
Merit: 1002
Hello!
After my home is destroyed and I am forced to survive from ramen noodles and canned tuna, I'll try posting some pictures of the disaster in order to raise funds to rebuild society  Roll Eyes
legendary
Activity: 1078
Merit: 1000
Charlie 'Van Bitcoin' Shrem
How ugly is it getting there now? Anyone able to post some pics?

You can play around with these:

www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/timessquare/
legendary
Activity: 1470
Merit: 1002
Hello!
Keep those hard drives dry...

Im about to get wrecked by the hurricane (central PA area)
BCB
vip
Activity: 1078
Merit: 1002
BCJ
Very Scary

We just had a gust and I thought my windows were going to blow in

Nothing to post on photo.  Just grey clouds.  And and at time horizontal rain.
sr. member
Activity: 462
Merit: 250
How ugly is it getting there now? Anyone able to post some pics?
hero member
Activity: 602
Merit: 500
Your *what* is itchy?
legendary
Activity: 1078
Merit: 1000
Charlie 'Van Bitcoin' Shrem
I am about to lose power...
sr. member
Activity: 451
Merit: 250
The block chain is still humming away here in Massachusetts.
member
Activity: 70
Merit: 10
This just in. You'll only get some rain and some wind from this Category 1 hurricane. Unless you live in a straw house. What you do is take your bitcoin to yoru local grocery store and buy food and water.....oh wait
member
Activity: 104
Merit: 10
The end is nye!
sr. member
Activity: 330
Merit: 250
http://abcnews.go.com/m/blogEntry?id=17587225
Update: floor AND electronic trading have been canceled.
BCB
vip
Activity: 1078
Merit: 1002
BCJ
Last I heard electronic trading on the street WOULD NOT be suspended Monday.
sr. member
Activity: 378
Merit: 250
Why is it so damn hot in here?
On a side note, while trading on Wall St. is suspended Monday, BTC exchanges will be open.
legendary
Activity: 1500
Merit: 1022
I advocate the Zeitgeist Movement & Venus Project.
They're shutting down the entire NYSE for two days. I think the bitcoin economy will show its resilience in the face of natural disaster.
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