Vlog 337: The day the blockchain stood still. A fix is currently being rolled out. Witnesses update your servers to v.0.19.5!
What a scare we all had this morning!
The blockchain stood still. No blocks produced at all.
I woke up @bennierex (our dev) at 6 am to inform him something was up.
Not long ago a fix has been released and it's currently being rolled out by the witnesses including @blockbrothers
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Witness @blockbrothers is now running v.0.19.5 on all the servers.
Here are the release note including the reason for the halt.
Things should hopefully be back to normal soon!
Lot's of stress on the same day I go on holiday :)
I talk about it more in my short vlog.
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Everything will be alright as this is the community of very talanted personality.Thanks for sharing your problems,all is well dear.
Me too. I was almost scared to death, when I checked my steemit account this and nothing seems to be working. But now, knowing it is kind of upgrade going on, there is it cos for alarm nor to be worried. Thanks for this update brother.
I heard the top 20 witness had to a convene to fix the situation, well it's a pretty scare, but the blockchain will definitely live forever, this I'm sure of, glad it's back on
Wow! I did notice that Steemit and steemd wasn't working last night. I think Steemdb was still working though. I figured it was just a Steemit.com issue and another Steemd issue. Thank you for the excellent coverage. I will share this today. Thanks for helping out.
I didn't noticed the down moment, because I was sleeping until right now. It´s good to see "our" blockchain handle really well with situations like this, it make us feel all much safer.
My only doubt is what happen if some trash people decide to constantly "attacked" the blockchain like it happened yesterday. Will it be stopped for weeks, months? (I don´t understand much about it).
I woke up to it. Funny thing discords felt like a feverish after party with so many people from different time frames awake and gathered up, including funniest improv songs
The reaction time for the fix was pretty good! The dev team was clearly ready for any problems!
They worked very hard!
Quite a scary start of the day for sure when you can't access anything but everyone worked like a team hopefully everything will be back to normal
Thanks for the update. I have a safe and fun time on your holiday!
it all seems to be working again OK now.
Have a great holiday, although, no doubt, you will be posting while you are away. 😁
Wishing you a smooth and uneventful journey.