Stellar Network Went Down For 2 Hours with Zero Transactions. Nobody Cared

By CCN: Stellar, the Ripple fork founded by Jed McCaleb after disagreements with decisions at Ripple, went down for about two hours yesterday. Tim Swanson alerted Twitter to the issue, and a Stellar representative confirmed its occurrence. Experts Notice, Story Goes Viral, Stellar Goes On Defense Breaking: yesterday the Stellar network went down for about 2 hours… only those who run validators noticed it. no new transactions were added for ~2 hours. network stats:https://t.co/eSRYFPjDQi — Tim Swanson (@ofnumbers) May 16, 2019 The incident raises questions about the level of decentralization in Stellar, which uses the same “validator” network design as The post Stellar Network Went Down For 2 Hours with Zero Transactions. Nobody Cared appeared first on CCN