Solana went down again on 4th Jan morning (UTC +8) , and was fixed early morning. Now it is back up, but shows how vulnerable this system is. A system that goes down is a death knell for serious traders

Another year.. and another episode of Solana going down.

Today it went down for a few hours in the early morning Asia time, and it took almost 4 hours to bring it back up.

The Solana community blames it on a DDOS attack. Lol

Solana down.

As the meme goes, the D in Solana stands for decentralisation.

A network that goes down this often will never be able to attract serious traders.

Imagine you are trading on margin and get liquidated because the network was down.. this happens in centralised exchanges. Solana now natively brings this kind of user experience to the blockchain where you can experience network failure on the chain. What a wonderful innovation.

Blaming it on attackers is just dishonesty. A well designed blockchain is not supposed to have attackers, its supposed to keep producing blocks based on the parameters of the network, not take a break because someone spammed transactions.

Edit: So Sol shills have attacked this post, here is some more "proof"

Coinbase blocked withdrawals as a result of Solana network going down

https://status.coinbase.com/incidents/clt85xbsqc1n

status (dot) solana.. LOL at using Solana's own status page to say the network didnt go down. I guess SOL shills love to remain in their centralised fairyland

Edit 2:

Turns out status dot solana page is lying to its own users. If you go into the Solana official groups, you can see dozens of people complaining about failing transactions, missing balances, transactions not being processed etc.

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\"Cannot harvest anything\"

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TPS was low

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Apparently Solana are censoring this story on their own groups, but people were discussing it to find solutions in validators server

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LOL

Users are repeatedly questioning the validity of the status dot solana page that shows 100% uptime even when the network was down, and even Coinbase flagged it as down.

This is why you dont use a service's own status page to come to conclusions especially if it masquerades as a decentralised blockchain, but in reality is just a glorified database.

Edit 3: This post is brigaded from the Solana sub. Hundreds of Sol shills are trying to pretend the network wasnt down. Ironically, on Sol sub itself, someone agrees that not only did the network go down, but had to be rebooted too. This is hilarious lol, the network was rebooted but status dot solana shows 100% uptime. Well played, centralised tricksters.

From Solana's own sub - user there agrees the network went down and had to be rebooted.

Many more LOLs if you go tough the Solana forums especially the validators groups

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\"the network IS indeed fooked\"

Absolute LOLs. A validator complaining about the utter lack of transparency on whats going on, while the devs pretend everything is great

TL,dr? Not only did the network go down, as shown by Coinbase status and many complaints on Solana groups, the Solana devs and community managers also tried to suppress whats going on and the Solana status page flat out lies to users.

I would honestly have not bothered going deep into Solana territory, but thanks to the 100 shills who attacked this post, we have all the juicy skeletons coming out of a SOL closet.. what a joke of a database.