Several websites were unavailable Friday after Cloudflare Inc. suffered an outage. The company said the problem had been fixed.

Cloudflare provides services like security, load balancing, video streaming, and domain registration for the internet.

In its official statement, the company said the outage was not the result of an attack, and after addressing the root cause, the incident was resolved.

The outage affected 12 data centers in the US and Europe, affecting several online businesses, including Shopify, Discord, League of Legends, Politico reported disruptions.

In the cryptocurrency space, crypto exchanges, including Bittrex, FTX, and Poloniex, websites like Coinmarketcap, and Crypto.com and uphold wallets were also down.

However, Bitcoin remained unaffected with its 99.98% uptime.

Cloudflare down.
Bitcoin still up. pic.twitter.com/fJJ3414rCu

— Dan Held (@danheld) July 17, 2020

The only time bitcoin network was down was in August 2010 when a block with the largest number of total transaction inputs was mined and broadcasted, but some bitcoin nodes rejected it, causing an unexpected fork of the blockchain.

To restore a canonical chain, Slush and BTCGuild downgraded their nodes so their pools would reject the larger block. As such, the transaction doesn’t exist today, and neither does the bitcoins created by that block.

Bitcoin continues to run interrupted; however, “the Cloudflare DNS outage can be seen reflected in the rate of bitcoin transactions broadcast, presumably because popular web wallets became inaccessible,” said Jameson Lopp, co-founder, and CTO at Casa.

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