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| comment | | "parent_author":"",<br>"parent_permlink":"news",<br>"author":"greatvideos",<br>"permlink":"cyber-attack-on-2-major-exchanges-now-i-know-why-my-2-transactions-didn-t-get-through",<br>"title":"Cyber attack on 2 major exchanges,<br> now I know what happened with my 2 Transactions in the last 2days from Coinbase",<br>"body":"I received the news from bitconnectt\n \nTwo Major Bitcoin Exchanges Fell Victim to Cyberattacks After Price Hits All-Time High\nOn June 11,<br> bitcoin price hit its new all-time high at $3,<br>018. Sources revealed that major bitcoin exchanges including Coinbase and its trading platform GDAX struggled to deal with increasing demand from traders as bitcoin price surged. Coinbase in particular could not handle the abrupt increase in traffic and its platform was unavailable for several hours.\n\nThis week,<br> sources including CNBC reported that major bitcoin exchanges including the largest US dollar-based bitcoin exchange Bitfinex and BTC-E fell victim to large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that left the two trading platforms unavailable for use temporarily.\n\nAlthough Bitfinex and its development team mitigated the attack and resolved the issue within an hour since the DDoS attacks were launched,<br> bitcoin trading platforms and exchanges are continuously being targeted by hackers globally.\n\n\nFor me this is a pain because I have a coinbase account \nI really need to find a better solution to change btc to Fiat \nI will order a card or register on a site where I can meet people directly and buy face to face ![Screenshot_20170617-121502.png (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmUzg2Kmy6eVELLkssVDP1m6Gmk54YBp22jVSEtmtkEDbd\/Screenshot_20170617-121502.png)",<br>"json_metadata":" \"tags\":[\"news\",<br>\"bitcoin\",<br>\"cryptocurrency\",<br>\"ethereum\",<br>\"steemit\" ,<br>\"image\":[\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmUzg2Kmy6eVELLkssVDP1m6Gmk54YBp22jVSEtmtkEDbd\/Screenshot_20170617-121502.png\" ,<br>\"app\":\"steemit\/0.1\",<br>\"format\":\"markdown\" " |
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