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Official Twitter account for the original Bitcoin Forum.

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The forum is down due to a hardware issue. Probably back within a couple of hours.

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Due to an ongoing DDoS attack, there may be periodic downtime.

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A DDoS is causing slowness and errors, I'm working on it.

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Fixing some things, should be back soon.

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As far as I can tell, everything is back to normal now. Can anyone still not access the forum?

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@potentialgoldOI I mean that in your hosts file (Google it), add a line like 34.198.191.99 https://t.co/OcgxbkJqtm, but you can use any of the listed IPs.

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Information and instructions for those who can't connect: https://t.co/wr0IacaNLQ

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Seems to be a DDoS attack after all. There might be periodic downtime until the attack stops or I figure out an effective mitigation.

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It should be working for everyone now.

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Certain regions/ISPs cannot reach the forum for some reason, while others work fine. I'm looking into it.

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DDoS attack

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DDoS attack

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The attack seems to have stopped for now, but if there's downtime in the next few days, this is probably the cause.

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DDoS attack.

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Back again, hopefully this time for good.

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Probably at least another day of downtime. Sorry.

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I noticed a possibly-suspicious irregularity. Due to paranoia, I took down the server just be make absolutely sure that everything is OK.

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Make sure you change your password on the forum and anywhere else you used the same password. More info: https://t.co/Oa2rEHA7Xj

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Back online.