The Bitcoin mining network is offline

by jbaudanza • 12 years ago

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jbaudanza2• 12 years ago

There has only been one block mining in the last two hours. Something appears to be affecting the miners. Does anyone have any more info?

marcell• 12 years ago

It is much more likely that there is an issue with blockchain.info than the bitcoin mining network

coreyja• 12 years ago

According to http://blockr.io/ there are new blocks that aren't showing up on blockchain.info, so I think you are correct

Jadawin• 12 years ago

Either that or the bitcoin network just got hacked (All today's blocks are shown as "orphaned"). But parts of the website aren't accessible, so...

dvcc• 12 years ago

Bitcoin mining is fine. Just a blockchain.info issue: http://blockr.io/.

jbaudanza2• 12 years ago

blockr.io is only showing one block more than blockchain.info.

jacquesm• 12 years ago

My wallet reports 8 connections and no issues at all, status at the bottom of the blockchain.info pages reports 'Ok (466 nodes connected)'. How did you determine that the network is offline?

(my own wallet also seems to be working just fine, I just received a transaction).

ufmace• 12 years ago

Odd, all right. Blockchain shows the last block as height 308923, with 2348 transactions, making it appear to be a legitimate delay. Interestingly, http://blockexplorer.com/ shows that block and the next one, 308924, with 1666 transactions, which was still 20 minutes ago when I wrote this. I'm not sure why that block isn't showing up in Blockchain. So far, it seems like a normal network quirk.

This may be strange, but I see no reason to think that the mining network is offline - that statement doesn't even really have any meaning. There is no mining network other than the whole Bitcoin P2P network. I don't see how that could possibly be down, being P2P and all, short of a global campaign by all governments and ISPs to block all Bitcoin traffic.

And whoop, there's another one, just as I'm finishing up. Almost certainly nothing to see here.

atoponce• 12 years ago

Quit posting X is (offline|down), definitely when it doesn't make sense ("The Bitcoin network"), is technically inaccurate ("Didn't you mean blockchain.org"?), or will be discovered by the person accessing it, and they'll find out anyway (Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, etc).

The Bitcoin mining network is offline

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