Solana outage triggers ballistic reaction from the crypto community

As the Solana web suffered different setback, crypto assemblage members went connected societal media to explicit assorted concerns, adjacent comparing the blockchain to different projects similar Ethereum and Bitcoin. 

On Feb. 25, the Solana web faced show degradation issues, resulting successful transaction disruptions, starring validators to opt for a web restart. Seemingly bushed of the aforesaid aged story, members of the assemblage expressed themselves connected Twitter, with immoderate adjacent questioning Solana’s (SOL) fertile arsenic a apical cryptocurrency.

Amid the web issues, nonfungible token (NFT) creator Crypto Tea raised a question connected however the Solana blockchain made it to the apical 10 database portion having specified show issues. She tweeted:

Responding to the tweet, Solana Mobile developer Andrew Watson said that they chose "security implicit liveness" and pointed retired that they are "in it for the agelong haul." In replying to Watson, different assemblage subordinate raised different concerns, specified arsenic putting decentralized concern protocols astatine hazard of insolvency.

Community subordinate commenting connected the topic.

Apart from these, different assemblage members started to comparison Solana to Ethereum and Bitcoin. A assemblage subordinate highlighted successful a Twitter thread that Ethereum went with the dilatory but definite route, portion Solana chose to determination accelerated portion sometimes breaking. The Twitter idiosyncratic said that portion Solana's attack is riskier, it besides paves the mode for faster innovation. 

Twitter idiosyncratic questioning Solana’s presumption arsenic an Ethereum killer.

Meanwhile, a Bitcoin protagonist besides pointed retired however Bitcoin (BTC) ne'er needs a restart successful the midst of Solana’s web issues. 

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On Feb. 27, the Solana Foundation published a caller update astir the issue. According to the team, the Solana Mainnet Beta was successfully restarted connected Feb. 26, and "no confirmed idiosyncratic transactions were rolled backmost oregon impacted." However, the squad highlighted that, astatine the moment, the basal origin of the occupation remains chartless and is inactive nether investigation.

The Solana blockchain has met immoderate notable outages done the years. In Sept. 2021, a large outage was caused by a denial-of-service attack by bots spamming Raydium. On May 2022, bots invaded the network, causing a 7-hour outage. In June 2022, a statement nonaccomplishment owed to a bug caused different outage, driving SOL's terms down.