The BitcoinTalk forum, pretty much the largest crypto currency discussion website, is currently experiencing some downtime. It seems that the problem this time is caused by hardware failure, unlike the last time back in November last year when the forum was apparently DDoS attacked. Checking the official twitter account for updates reveals information that apparently the problem was caused by hard drive failure and there could be some extended downtime before things are back online. Also there is information that some of the posts made in the last few hours before the website went down might be lost. Hopefully things with BitcoinTalk will be back to normal later today and the forum will resume operation again…

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