It’s not uncommon for a bitcoin exchange to go offline with short notice, or no notice, in order to repair hardware or fix an urgent issue. Typically when this happens, exchanges can be down for an hour or two, and usually there is communication to the public, either via social media or blog posts that there is an outage and it’s being addressed. But when a bitcoin exchange goes offline completely, and has been for several hours with zero communication, people begin to scratch their hands.
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