Following six-hour outage, Solana draws criticism and support
While some piled on the layer-one blockchain for its network hiccup, others offered support. Yesterday, a nearly six hour network outage from Solana, a layer-one blockchain known for its high throughput, drew both jeers and support from traders and developers across the smart contract space. “At approximately 1:46pm UTC on December 4th, 2020, the Solana Mainnet Beta cluster stopped producing blocks at slot 53,180,900, which prevented any new transactions from being confirmed,” a live update blog post from Solana reported. The outage lasted roughly five and a half hours before over 200....
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