TL;DR
Yesterday morning, the Solana community went down for a strong 5hrs, however SOL’s value really went UP after the outage ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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“Hello um, yeah, lemme get an ‘Uh-oh’ with a facet of ‘Yikes’ – and is your ‘OOFT’ made in-house?”
So, yesterday morning the Solana community went offline for a strong 5hrs.
In that point, the Solana core engineers recognized the issue, rewrote some code, and despatched an replace out to the oldsters chargeable for validating SOL transactions.
On one hand: that’s a formidable effort from the engineers.
On the opposite: this shouldn’t nonetheless be taking place — if ever.
(Particularly on a community that hopes to finally decentralize the US inventory market).
Add this to final April’s outage (when Solana went down for nearly two entire days) and also you would possibly begin to get fearful…
However right here’s the loopy half:
Judging from the value motion, Solana holders don’t appear to care.
In actual fact, on a 24hr timeframe, SOL’s value really went UP after the outage (?)
¯_(ツ)_/¯