Several banks around the world are working hard to bring mobile and online experiences to their customers. However, not every bank is overly successful in their efforts. HSBC bank has been making headlines several times in recent months for online and mobile banking outages. This time, they claim a denial of service attack is preventing customers from logging in. The Bitcoin network, on the other hand, has never suffered from these issues.
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