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2022-06-21 12:30:46

Major Crypto Exchanges Go Down Following Cloudflare Outage

Several major cryptocurrency exchanges including FTX, Bitfinex, Bitmex, OKX, and Coinbase were briefly inaccessible after Cloudflare faced an outage for about an hour. Cloudflare Outage Hits Major Crypto Platforms Cloudflare, a content delivery network (CDN) posted early on June 21 that it is experiencing “widespread issues” with its services and network. The Cloudflare team is aware of the current service issues and is working to resolve as quickly as possible. Updates can be followed here. https://t.co/22Yiyu3lKJ — Cloudflare (@Cloudflare) June 21, 2022 A number of services that rely on Cloudflare for distributed denial of service (DDOS) protection were hit by the outage including platforms like Discord, Omegle, DoorDash, NordVPN, Feedly, and Crunchyroll. Several crypto exchanges and other platforms were also affected including FTX, Bitfinex, Bitmex, OKX, Coinbase, Etherscan, and XUUM, a non-custodial wallet with problems in accessing the sites. Block explorer Etherscan and crypto exchange FTX and Bitfinex tweeted about their platforms being unavailable. We're aware of users being unable to access Etherscan and other websites atm… it appears related to an issue with @Cloudflare. We are looking into it 🙏https://t.co/ntTw6PvnkA — Etherscan (@etherscan) June 21, 2022 Cloudflare is experiencing an outage, and so FTX and many other sites are going to be hard to access for many users. FTX markets are in post-only mode. — FTX (@FT...

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