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Google Meet Outage Disrupts Thousands, Crypto Community Affected
ByAinvest
Tuesday, Sep 9, 2025 9:55 am ET1min read
Google Meet experienced a large outage on September 8, with over 10,000 users reporting issues. Users were unable to join meetings or experience unexpected call dropouts. Google has yet to comment on the cause of the outage. The disruption has been reported to have impacted the crypto community, with several developers and traders flagging the incident as a blocker to scheduled meetings and coordination tasks.
Google Meet experienced a significant outage on September 8, with over 10,000 users reporting issues. Users were unable to join meetings or experience unexpected call dropouts. Google has yet to comment on the cause of the outage. The disruption has been reported to have impacted the crypto community, with several developers and traders flagging the incident as a blocker to scheduled meetings and coordination tasks.According to outage tracking site Downdetector, reports of issues with Google's video-conferencing service reached around 10,000 by late morning [1]. Many customers reported being unable to join meetings or experiencing unexpected call dropouts. The outage wasn't limited to the crypto sector, but several developers and traders flagged the incident as a blocker to scheduled meetings and coordination tasks. "Was supposed to be on a Meet call to finalize a protocol deployment — cancelled now," said pseudonymous Ethereum developer 0xMilo on a Discord channel for Ethereum developers [1]. Another founder, known as DeFiShark, wrote: "Running a team across 5 time zones, and the one thing we all rely on breaks down? Not ideal. Lost a key VC call today" [1].
The outage has highlighted the critical need for robust testing and contingency planning in tech services. Google acknowledged the issue on its Workspace Status page at 11:07 AM PT, stating, "We are experiencing an issue with Google Meet. Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue" [2]. The company later confirmed that the root cause was a recent change in their content edge cache, which affected the platform’s ability to load user interfaces. By rolling back the modification, the issue was resolved within hours [2].
The incident underscores the growing dependency on digital tools like Google Meet for global operations and coordination, particularly in sectors like crypto and tech. As digital tools continue to dominate professional and personal interactions, companies like Google must prioritize stability and transparency to maintain user trust. The swift resolution of this incident is a positive step, but it also serves as a call to action for better infrastructure resilience.
References:
[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-meet-outage-disrupts-thousands-210609088.html
[2] https://azat.tv/en/google-meet-outage-disrupts-thousands/
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