Can Solana become the dominant PoS chain despite persistent outages?

Can Solana become the dominant PoS chain despite persistent outages?

The Solana network seems to be battling persistent outages while seeking to address the industry’s blockchain trilemma. Like most new-age networks, Solana was developed to resolve major issues confronting the blockchain industry. While the network has addressed some of these issues by its very nature, it has also encountered a few unique problems.From resource exhaustion to a halt in block confirmation, the Solana network has suffered a number of setbacks that resulted in repeated power outages, causing the network to shut down for hours on several occasions.The network went down on....


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