# Bitcoin Mainnet Degraded Performance

- Provider: [Alchemy](https://down.guide/alchemy)
- Level: confirmed
- Impact: Degraded
- lasted 2h 45m
- started 2026-04-17 00:30 UTC
- Bitcoin
- id: DWN-35379fdfee
- Official page: https://stspg.io/thw4jb9hbg23

## Updates from Alchemy
### 2026-04-17 00:30 UTC: investigating
Bitcoin Mainnet nodes are intermittently returning malformed responses. We are currently investigating this issue.

### 2026-04-17 03:15 UTC: resolved
This incident has been resolved.

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