The Feds system has suffered problems before. In 2019, the FedWire interbank funds transfer service went down for about three hours. The Fed blamed the outage on “an internal technical issue,” but declined to provide more details.
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Federal Reserve Wire and ACH Systems Back Online after Outage Affecting Exchanges
Feb 25 2021 · 10:05 UTC | Updated
Feb 25 2021 · 10:16 by John Kiguru · 3 min read
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Some other services offered by the Fed were also disrupted some of which include, FedLine Advantage, FedLine Command, FedLine Direct, FedLine Web and FedMail.
For an hour, the Federal reserve wire and ACH systems were down. During the Wednesday downtime, a number of US-based crypto exchanges was affected.
The systems allow the Fed to send wires and settle the transactions in real-time. Fedwire offers real-time settlement across accredited institutions. Gemini and Kraken reported delays in Federal Reserve wire and automated clearing house transactions. But the severity of it was much greater as no bank was able to send or receive wires. During the downtime, many in the crypto community were quick to point out that Blockchain could serve th