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RE: Witness Update - Acknowledgement of error and changes to @curie witness operation structure (April 2nd, 2018)
What were the consequences of this mistake? Did it have any real life repercussions?
What were the consequences of this mistake? Did it have any real life repercussions?
Yes, the Curie witness was (at the time) a top 20 witness and as such was regularly scheduled to produce blocks for the Steem blockchain. For the ~ 12 hours that it took for the Curie witness operator to respond, the Curie witness was still being automatically scheduled to produce blocks and was missing the blocks the entire time. Ultimately as blocks are scheduled ~ every 3 seconds, and the same witness is not scheduled to produce blocks consecutively, when a witness misses a block it just means a 3 second delay in transactions on the Steem blockchain. This is still a real life repercussion and a top witness should not be missing any blocks, let alone 12 hours straight.