The blockchain community Solana had points processing blocks on September 14 and in accordance with a standing report on September 15 at 2:01 a.m. (EST), the Solana validator community “successfully completed a restart of Mainnet Beta.”
Solana Validators Restart Mainnet Beta
Solana is now a member of the membership of blockchains which have stalled for a number of hours stopping individuals from sending SOL transactions, utilizing decentralized apps (dapps), and troubling block explorers and wallets with important points. During the early morning hours on Wednesday, following Solana’s block production stall on Tuesday, the “Solana Status” Twitter account gave the community an update. The official Solana Twitter page also retweeted the Solana Status tweet.
“The Solana validator neighborhood efficiently accomplished a restart of Mainnet Beta after an improve to 1.6.25,” Solana Standing explained. “Dapps, block explorers, and supporting systems will recover over the next several hours, at which point full functionality should be restored.” Regardless of the restart individuals nonetheless complained about errors stemming from two completely different block explorers. The person mentioned:
Why [do] Solscan and Explorer have different block heights? Solscan doesn’t present new blocks for an hour already. Explorer’s clock is mistaken as effectively. Did Solana fork once more?
Solana Users Ask for Compensation, Solana’s Use of Blockchain Questioned, Software Developer Explains Solana’s Bug Differences From Ethereum’s Issue in 2016
In response to the Solana Status report at 2:01 a.m. this morning, a few individuals asked for compensation. “Please compensate us solana holders who’ve been sh***ing our pants for the reason that crash,” one particular person replied on Twitter to the Solana Standing replace. The Solana blockchain community caught a lot of flak for the outage and some wondered why the network uses a blockchain in the first place.
“Why does Solana even use a blockchain?” the Twitter account ‘Mike in Area’ tweeted on Tuesday. “If you can just shut it down all day for “maintenance” it doesn’t sound very censorship-resistant to me,” he added. A person responded to the tweet from Mike in Area and mentioned: “It doesn’t matter that it isn’t censorship resistant as a result of its primary use case is one thing else.” However this didn’t fulfill the cryptocurrency supporter and he replied:
Why not a database then? Looks like loads of pointless overhead.
Ethereum developer Hudson Jameson wrote about how he believes what happened to Solana “is not the same thing that happened during the Ethereum Shanghai attacks in 2016, but I understand why people think so.”
“Each assaults had been DoS assaults meant to halt block manufacturing, so that’s comparable. The big difference is that in Ethereum blocks never stopped producing during the attacks because of our multi-client design decisions. Solana is actually having to do a community restart,” Hudson stressed. The software program developer added:
I don’t like the rhetoric and comparisons to Ethereum [Anatoly Yakovenko] and others have made throughout the day on Twitter because it feels disingenuous and feels like it minimizes the issues Solana faced. I additionally don’t like that some individuals within the Ethereum neighborhood are bashing Solana for having to manually restart. Ethereum may simply as simply be in an identical place if the merge has a bug. All that being said, I hold no ill will towards Solana and wish them the best.
At press time, solana (SOL) is down 7.5% during the last seven days and stays a prime seven crypto asset by way of market valuation. The incident did very little damage to people’s perspective of the market and in the past four hours, SOL prices have seen gains.
