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Steem is forced to have a bandwidth limit. Otherwise hackers would DDOS attack it, put garbage on the blockchain, and bring Steem to a grinding halt.
Steem is forced to have a bandwidth limit. Otherwise hackers would DDOS attack it, put garbage on the blockchain, and bring Steem to a grinding halt.
I guess I never thought about that. Good information though. Hmm, I bet if enough people got together they could do damage but... with the way Steemit users have power I bet they could turn the tides rather quickly.
When Steem get's overwhelmed the witnesses just lower everyone's bandwidth temporarily. It used to happen A LOT 7 month ago. If you didn't have stake you couldn't post before noon on the west coast.
Oh wow, I had no idea that was a thing. I need to learn more about Steemit but oh well. At one point my account was worth over $22,000. After it fell to around $8,000 I started selling and used the money to move from California to Florida. Still powering down but who knows what I will do with it. I want to leave as much here as I can but for now I am using it to survive on.