Filecoin network suffers temporary outage

Filecoin network suffers temporary outage

The Filecoin network is recovering as miners upgrade to a new client after a four-hour network outage. Decentralized storage protocol Filecoin (FIL) came to a standstill on Dec. 19 as a bug caused instability on the network. According to a project status report issued by the Filecoin team: “The Filecoin network is halted with most nodes stuck at height 336459 with mismatched state compute error due to indeterminate behavior.”Based on the timeline given in the status update, it took less than four hours for the Filecoin dev team to fix the problem. As part of the solution, miners had to....


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