FirstBits on BlockChain (Block Chain): Where did they go?

[Phinnaeus Gage]

Is FirstBits and BlockChain not playing nice with each other? I no longer see the short URL on blockchain.info, nor a particular one I use and shared generates the intended page. Mongo so sad!

~TMIBTCITW

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[chrisrico]

I noticed the same thing, I created a vanity address starting with 1ECDSA I want to put on my license plate, but for some reason blockchain.info isn't recognizing the Firstbits even though I sent a small transaction to it.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

I noticed the same thing, I created a vanity address starting with 1ECDSA I want to put on my license plate, but for some reason blockchain.info isn't recognizing the Firstbits even though I sent a small transaction to it.

FirstBits doesn't recognize nor generates them either, now. Mongo still so sad.

[chrisrico]

FirstBits doesn't recognize nor generates them either, now. Mongo still so sad.

I think that's because they use the Blockchain.info API.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

I'm going to PM piuk to see if he can shed some light on this.

[piuk]

Firstbits has been disabled temporarily to reduce database load. At the moment I am not sure when it will be available again.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

Firstbits has been disabled temporarily to reduce database load. At the moment I am not sure when it will be available again.

Thank you so kindly, piuk, for your timely and informable reply. Ironically, the last online wallet entity of which I thanked its principle for clearing up an issue went dark about a week later. Please till me that a near future hack is not iminent. 

I guess that also makes FirstBits dead in the water, since they use BC's API to generate FBs, as I've already tried to do to no success.

~TMIBTCITW

[Phinnaeus Gage]

piuk, you're doing it wrong! You're suppose to wait a week or two before a hack occurs at BlockChain, not just a few hours after I thank you. Surely, you don't want folks here to think you're some sort of amateur, now do you?

This post is strictly tongue-in-cheek, but I will quit laughing come tomorrow is the site is still down.

Later, bud.

~TMIBTCITW