The BitMax cryptocurrency exchange temporarily stopped trading for some users due to interruptions in the operation of Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud services observed this morning.
Dear Users ， due to abnormal market fluctuations, https://t.co/Tcy98YEGIh has temporarily suspended trading service for accounts which had traded during 1:00 am – 3:30 am EDT, Aug 23rd, 2019.
Click on the link below for more details. https://t.co/NNLBLtqQzc– BitMax Official (@BitMax_Official) August 23, 2019
“Due to abnormal market fluctuations, BitMax temporarily suspended trading services for accounts that participated in the auction on August 23 from 01:00 to 03:30 EDT,” representatives of the site said.
It is expected that trading on these accounts will be resumed after confirmation and follow-up.
Outages in AWS have caused a strong fluctuation in the prices of cryptocurrencies on some exchanges. So, on one of the trading floors, the price of bitcoin was $ 0.32-0.35.
On BitMax, Bitcoin dropped to $ 8520, while the Ethereum rate collapsed to $ 0.33 at one point.
We will remind, earlier on the possible interruptions in the withdrawal of funds amid problems with AWS , the Binance and KuCoin trading platforms announced.
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