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RE: Why Can't We Make Steem Become More Decentralized? Some Random Thoughts After The 'Crash'
One thing that irks me a lot is that (probably?) all interfaces (steemit.com, busy.org, steempeak.org, eSteem on mobile, etc - haven't checked the eSteem Surfer yet) went completely down. Seems like all the steem nodes crashed down - how difficult can it be to get some steem nodes up and running without syncing content with other nodes, just so that the content could still be visible on all those sites? There isn't much point in a blockchain when it can become completely inaccessible so quickly.
Well it's actually good that it went down, since the blockchain stops operating mostly for security reasons. If the blockchain would go ahead operating, even though it received an inconsistent information, then this could seriously harm the whole chain/network.
I have deep respect for blockchain developers in general since I feel that most of us have no idea how complex such a system can be. So I'm just full of hope that with every setback we'll be wiser and better and be stronger :-)
Wishing you a great weekend!
Btw I only replied late due to the issues with my account... sorry for that.
I sure hope so, and I agree very much that "freeze" is a lot better than a long-lasting chain fork with the risk of double spends, etc.
Still, I think it's very important that historic data from the blockchain is always available, and it should not be that difficult to achieve, even in a frozen blockchain. After all, long-term immutable robust storage is one of the selling points of the blockchain technology, then it looks pretty bad that a small bug causes a total outage.