Internet Outage
YouTube faces global outage affecting thousands of users
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YouTube encountered a global outage on February 18, 2026, impacting users in India, the US, and other countries with issues in video streaming and app access. According to Downdetector, India saw 19,097 complaints at 7:11 am. The company has acknowledged the disruption but provided no details on the cause or restoration timeline.
Cloudflare suffered a major outage on November 18, 2025, rendering millions of websites worldwide, including X and ChatGPT, inaccessible for about three hours. The company confirmed the issue stemmed from an old bug triggered by a routine configuration change, not a cyber attack. Cloudflare apologized for the global impact on customers.
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A hypothetical global internet outage would fracture Bitcoin's network into isolated partitions, leading to divergent blockchains based on regional hashrate distribution. While the protocol would survive through automatic reconciliation upon reconnection, user experience could suffer from paused services and orphaned transactions. In a permanent scenario, Bitcoin might evolve into multiple independent networks.