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Re:Why Solana Was Decimated by Bankman-Fried’s Downfall by ErikAugust on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @07:07PM (#34167778)
Did it go down 12 times for technical reasons or was it intentionally pulled down? Something to wonder about.
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Re:Why Solana Was Decimated by Bankman-Fried’s Downfall by quanticle on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @07:23PM (#34167888)
Is there a difference? A decentralized protocol that can be DOS'd by a reasonably successful criminal gang isn't all that useful.
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Re:Why Solana Was Decimated by Bankman-Fried’s Downfall by londons_explore on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @07:15PM (#34167828)
Doesn't sound very decentralized at all...
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Re:Why Solana Was Decimated by Bankman-Fried’s Downfall by nailer on Thursday December 29, 2022 @02:13AM (#34170313)
No it just had bugs that got fixed. Decentralisation does not imply perfection.
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Re:Why Solana Was Decimated by Bankman-Fried’s Downfall by imtringued on Thursday December 29, 2022 @04:37AM (#34171021)
It goes down for an incredibly stupid decision. Transactions on Solana are free so spammers can produce millions of transactions per second and at some point validators simply crash.

Solana has subsecond transaction processing so a validator being down for more than a second counts as a downtime whereas with Bitcoin a block taking two hours to mine is completely normal. Bitcoin doesn't have the concept of "downtime" only the concept of delaying the next block.

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