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CloudFlare Outage Takes Down Coinbase, CoinMarketCap and Other Top Crypto Websites

The outage hit multiple major exchanges and information sites.

(Aleynikov Pavel/Shutterstock)
(Aleynikov Pavel/Shutterstock)

A brief outage Tuesday morning at 10:00AM Eastern took down a number of crypto information and trading sites including Coinbase and CoinMarketCap. The issues cleared up around 10:18AM and most sites seem to be running again.

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Cloudflare, a CDN provider, first noticed the outage at 1:52PM UTC/9:52 AM Eastern and the impacted sites went down shortly after, wreaking havoc on automatic pricing engines including CoinDesk's. For a moment CoinDesk's widget displayed a price of $26 per bitcoin.

Coinbase noticed and implemented a fix after the outage.

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Poloniex

noted the outage but explained that no funds were lost while Itbit reported that the front-end web server failed by no back-end functions crashed.

The suspected culprit, Cloudflare, is a service used by many websites to speed up delivery of data and media over the Internet.

Bitcoin price hovered at around $10,000 during the outage, falling as far as $9,958 according to CoinMarketCap.

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John Biggs

John Biggs is an entrepreneur, consultant, writer, and maker. He spent fifteen years as an editor for Gizmodo, CrunchGear, and TechCrunch and has a deep background in hardware startups, 3D printing, and blockchain. His work has appeared in Men’s Health, Wired, and the New York Times. He runs the Technotopia podcast about a better future.

He has written five books including the best book on blogging, Bloggers Boot Camp, and a book about the most expensive timepiece ever made, Marie Antoinette’s Watch. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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