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Title: Bitstamp is down
Post by: cryptocoinsnews on November 05, 2013, 10:00:44 PM
Bitstamp is currently down. We do not know if this is a problem with Bitstamp itself or if the site has been hacked, or if it has been shut down by a government entity. If you have any information please add your comment in the section below.

http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/2013/11/05/bitstamp-is-down/


Title: Re: Bitstamp is down
Post by: BCB on November 05, 2013, 10:03:47 PM
he may be blog spam but bitstamp has been returning HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable.  Seems to be back up but very slow.

Coinbase.com also returned a few HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable today.

I would guess some minor Ddosing going on to drive the price down.



Title: Re: Bitstamp is down
Post by: cypherdoc on November 05, 2013, 10:07:33 PM
probably too many ppl trying to buy.


Title: Re: Bitstamp is down
Post by: uhoh on November 05, 2013, 10:08:50 PM
Bitstamp is currently down. We do not know if this is a problem with Bitstamp itself or if the site has been hacked, or if it has been shut down by a government entity. If you have any information please add your comment in the section below.

http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/2013/11/05/bitstamp-is-down/

Alarmist much?


Title: Re: Bitstamp is down
Post by: bits4books on November 05, 2013, 10:09:09 PM
I just got an unsecure page telling me "this site requires additional security"


Title: Re: Bitstamp is down
Post by: Birdy on November 05, 2013, 10:15:45 PM
Bitstamp is currently down. We do not know if this is a problem with Bitstamp itself or if the site was eaten by dinosaurs, went into the future or if it had a bad hair day. Actually we don't know anything about it, but like to sound very serious. If you have any information please add your comment in the section below.

fixed.
Probably a DDOS, isn't it?


Title: Re: Bitstamp is down
Post by: Rluner on November 05, 2013, 10:27:55 PM
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Probably a DDOS, isn't it?

With the talk of DDoS:-

This is old, but if you haven't seen it , it's worth watching.

 Bitcoin related video fun. - Blame it on MT.GOX  - http://t.co/EFKDzVLYiH


Title: Re: Bitstamp is down
Post by: Kouye on November 05, 2013, 10:29:08 PM
Looks back up.


Title: Re: Bitstamp is down
Post by: Birdy on November 05, 2013, 10:34:16 PM
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Probably a DDOS, isn't it?

With the talk of DDoS:-

This is old, but if you haven't seen it , it's worth watching.

 Bitcoin related video fun. - Blame it on MT.GOX  - http://t.co/EFKDzVLYiH
Actually I was listening to that song on one of drops just after I got into Bitcoin.
Somehow it was quite soothing (and I didn't panicsell :D), good old stuff ^^


Title: Re: Bitstamp is down
Post by: IsaacGoldbourne on November 05, 2013, 10:37:40 PM
Gotta love some spammy blog post fear mongering!


Title: Re: Bitstamp is down
Post by: turbobitcoin on November 05, 2013, 10:46:30 PM
I always local exchange using https://localbitcoins.com/ .
I get cash when I want or bitcoin when I want.