BTC outages and problems
In the past 24 hours, 12 user reports came in for BTC. Counting only the 15-minute windows with a spike big enough to count as an outage, that comes to 100.00% uptime for the day.
The busiest 15-minute window had 3 reports, about 4 hours ago. That stays below our outage threshold, so it doesn't count as downtime.
BTC in October 2026
- Problem reports in October (since 28 October)
- 12
Monthly report for October 2026
What went wrong
What people said was wrong in recent problem reports for BTC.
Share of 2 recent reports that said what was wrong.
Where BTC problem reports come from
The map shows where recent problem reports for BTC came from in the US. Big cities always send the most, so dots in many places point to a widespread problem, and one area far ahead of the rest can mean a regional one.
- Outage now
- Problems now
- Normal
Map outlines: Natural Earth.
BTC problem spikes, last 30 days
Since 28 October, BTC had no outage spikes or periods of elevated reports.
A spike is a sharp rise in problem reports from users, kept exactly as this page showed it at the time. This history starts on 28 October 2026. Monthly reports for all services
How to fix BTC not working
BTC is up on our end, so if it won't work for you, the problem is most likely on your side. Work through these in order:
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Drop VPN and proxy
Turn off any VPN or proxy, then reopen the wallet so it can reconnect to peers. If you run Bitcoin Core, open Window > Console and run `getnetworkinfo`; a zero connection count points to a local network block.
Watch sync progress
Look at the sync indicator in your wallet before you send or receive anything. A short sync is fine. If you use Bitcoin Core, open Window > Console and run `getblockchaininfo`; a verification progress below one means the node has not caught up with the chain, so let it finish.
Look up the transaction ID
Copy the transaction ID from the wallet and look it up in a block explorer you trust. If no record appears, the transaction never reached the mempool; if it shows as unconfirmed, wait for a block before you send again.
Rescan the wallet
Quit the wallet fully and reopen it so it can drop a stuck peer session; a clean restart starts a fresh sync. If you run Bitcoin Core, stop it and start it with `-rescan` to rebuild the wallet transaction index from the local chain.
While BTC is down: what to use instead
- Coinbase Use it to buy or sell when the usual exchange stalls at login or throws a service error.
- Kraken Place an order here if the first platform will not load and you still need the trade done.
- Electrum Send or receive coins from a desktop wallet if the mobile app will not open.
- Cash or card Pay with cash or a card if a BTC checkout will not complete; you still get the purchase finished.
What happens when BTC goes down
BTC is a cryptocurrency. Traders, wallet holders, payment processors, and merchants rely on it, so an outage interrupts sends, exchange deposits, withdrawals, and checkout payments that wait on confirmations.
Your wallet may show a stale balance while transaction history stops refreshing, and a send can sit unconfirmed long enough that the app offers to bump the fee. Exchange deposit and withdrawal screens often stall first, with pending or failed messages when the service cannot settle a transfer. A payment checkout can hang at the confirmation step because the quoted amount or fee estimate moved before the network picked up the transaction. Trouble tends to hit one wallet, one exchange, one payment processor, or one region before it spreads, so check the status at the top rather than treating a local failure as a full network stop.
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How we track BTC
The status on this page comes from user-submitted problem reports for BTC, counted in 15-minute windows over the last 24 hours. Each window is compared with the normal level for BTC, so a few complaints on a quiet day don't trigger anything, but a sudden jump well above normal does.
When reports climb well above normal, the status here changes to partial outage or major outage and the chart moves with it. BTC doesn't publish a public status page that we know of, so user reports are often the quickest sign that something is wrong on their side.