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Sure - it’s a bug, it’s been fixed. The issue occurred on 30 Sep and there’s a discussion here: https://solana.com/news/09-30-22-solana-mainnet-beta-outage-rep

by nailer 4y ago

Sure - it’s a bug, it’s been fixed. The issue occurred on 30 Sep and there’s a discussion here: https://solana.com/news/09-30-22-solana-mainnet-beta-outage-report https://solana.com/news/09-30-22-solana-mainnet-beta-outage-... And the fix: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/28172 https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/28172 That’s how software works. Things break. They particularly break at scale. Nobody’s done this before. If Eth was as busy it would break too.

kayamon 4y ago
They have done it before -- Bitcoin existed first, and has kept clearing transactions every ten minutes since, and will continue to do so once Solana is long dead.
- nailer 4y ago
  Bitcoin and Eth have nowhere near the usage of Solana.
  - snapcaster 4y ago
    and Solana has way less usage than the average postgres DB running webapp xyz
    - nailer 4y ago
      Nope: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33879077 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33879077
      - snapcaster 4y ago
        I don't see how your link disputes my claim
        nailer 4y ago
        ok
TimJRobinson 4y ago
Ethereum and Bitcoin don't break because they thought about "What happens if we get DDOS'd" and added a fee market, something Solana still hasn't properly addressed which is why it still falls over when attacked by spam. A network falling over because of high usage or (in this case) one validator had a misconfigured node is extremely bad.
- nailer 4y ago
  Eth and Bitcoin don't have high usage. And the issue with the single validator mentioned, as you'll be aware from reading https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/28172 https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/28172, wasn't a design failure, but a software issue. Bitcoin and Eth have those too.