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Is CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index (api.coindesk.com) down?
FAILING right now — answering HTTP 530 to plain requests.
Last checked 2026-09-11T20:30:46Z · checked every hour · OK-rate 24h: 0% · 7d: 0% · raw JSON · Atom feed of its down/recovered events
Failing streak began 2026-08-31T15:30:00Z or earlier (11 days — dead, not a blip) · last successful check: none in the last 7 days
Context: The classic keyless BTC-price API from a decade of crypto tutorials is gone — api.coindesk.com no longer resolves (direct curls fail DNS with NXDOMAIN; checks from Cloudflare's network get HTTP 530), so every v1/bpi/currentprice.json call in those tutorials fails. CoinDesk's current data API lives on a different host (developers.coindesk.com).
What we check: GET https://api.coindesk.com/v1/bpi/currentprice.json — a plain, keyless request from Cloudflare's network with an honest bot UA, exactly what a tutorial curl or an <img> tag experiences. OK = HTTP 2xx/3xx within 8s. No retries, no cookies, no API keys.
Need reference data you own?
If api.coindesk.com is failing (or you're tired of finding out mid-demo), Mockbird gives you your own copy of the reference data — 250 countries (names, ISO codes, capitals, regions, currencies, flags) or 170+ currencies with dated sample rates — served as a queryable REST API in one pipe, no key, no monthly cap — free, no signup:
curl -s https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/data/countries.db.json \
| curl -s -X POST 'https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/api/projects/import?name=countries' \
--data-binary @-
# then e.g. ?region=Europe or ?code=FR on /m/YOUR_ID/countries
# currencies + sample rates: /data/currencies.db.json (see /guides/mock-exchange-rates-api)Read the honest CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index (api.coindesk.com) migration guide → (it also says when CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index (api.coindesk.com) is the better tool) or create your own mock API in one click.
README badge
Does your project's test suite or tutorial depend on api.coindesk.com? Embed a live status badge — it re-renders from our latest check (cached 5 min):
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<a href="https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/coindesk-bpi"><img src="https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/coindesk-bpi/badge.svg" alt="api.coindesk.com status"></a>Green = answering plain GETs, red = network-dead, amber = answering but with an error status. Every tracked service has one; there's also a summary badge for all 71.
Get pinged when it goes down
Subscribe any webhook URL — no account needed. One message when api.coindesk.com goes down, one when it recovers (debounced: two consecutive hourly checks must agree, so a single blip never fires). Slack and Discord incoming-webhook URLs get a formatted message; anything else gets an HMAC-signed JSON POST.
Or from a terminal / CI script:
curl -X POST https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/api/status/watch \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"service": "coindesk-bpi", "url": "https://hooks.slack.com/services/T000/B000/XXXX"}'Use "service": "*" to watch all 71 tracked services at once. The response includes an unsubscribe curl; 5 consecutive failed deliveries auto-unsubscribe. No webhook? Omit "url" to get a pollable subscription instead — GET the returned poll URL anytime for the transitions since your last poll. Full API details →
The same checker can watch your own URL: POST /api/status/monitor {"url": "https://api.example.com/health", "notify": "<webhook>"} — every 30 minutes, alert on down + recovery, free, no account. Monitor API →
Recent checks
| Checked at (UTC) | Result | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-11T20:30:46Z | HTTP 530 | 6 ms |
| 2026-09-11T20:30:22Z | HTTP 530 | 22 ms |
| 2026-09-11T19:30:44Z | HTTP 530 | 10 ms |
| 2026-09-11T19:30:23Z | HTTP 530 | 94 ms |
| 2026-09-11T18:30:12Z | HTTP 530 | 10 ms |
| 2026-09-11T17:30:24Z | HTTP 530 | 15 ms |
| 2026-09-11T16:30:20Z | HTTP 530 | 17 ms |
| 2026-09-11T13:30:57Z | HTTP 530 | 33 ms |
| 2026-09-11T12:30:46Z | HTTP 530 | 8 ms |
| 2026-09-11T11:30:46Z | HTTP 530 | 6 ms |
| 2026-09-11T10:30:46Z | HTTP 530 | 8 ms |
| 2026-09-11T09:30:46Z | HTTP 530 | 8 ms |
| 2026-09-11T08:30:46Z | HTTP 530 | 5 ms |
| 2026-09-11T07:30:46Z | HTTP 530 | 16 ms |
| 2026-09-11T06:30:46Z | HTTP 530 | 81 ms |
| 2026-09-11T05:31:09Z | HTTP 530 | 4 ms |
| 2026-09-11T04:31:08Z | HTTP 530 | 5 ms |
| 2026-09-11T03:31:03Z | HTTP 530 | 6 ms |
| 2026-09-11T02:31:07Z | HTTP 530 | 3 ms |
| 2026-09-11T01:31:05Z | HTTP 530 | 5 ms |
| 2026-09-11T00:31:07Z | HTTP 530 | 4 ms |
| 2026-09-10T23:31:04Z | HTTP 530 | 4 ms |
| 2026-09-10T22:31:05Z | HTTP 530 | 4 ms |
| 2026-09-10T21:31:05Z | HTTP 530 | 16 ms |
| 2026-09-10T20:30:24Z | HTTP 530 | 7 ms |
| 2026-09-10T19:30:24Z | HTTP 530 | 8 ms |
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