Block.io experienced a major incident on October 16, 2017, lasting 52m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Update timeline
- identified Oct 16, 2017, 02:58 AM UTC
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
- monitoring Oct 16, 2017, 03:37 AM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- resolved Oct 16, 2017, 03:51 AM UTC
An issue related to Bitcoin Core 0.15.x caused lag in REST API responses. The issue is related to Core's parsing of certain parameters that make the daemon work harder than it should. This is now resolved. Apologies for the inconvenience.