Solana had a big network fail recently - why decentralization matters

[otreza]

Meanwhile, SOLONA updated ATH today. I could not find a link to the source of this news? I simply do not serve behind the project, because I was not involved in it.

[GreatArkansas]

Meanwhile, SOLONA updated ATH today. I could not find a link to the source of this news? I simply do not serve behind the project, because I was not involved in it.

This happened last month, Solana went down for about 17 hours. And they did some restart thing to get the Solana network started again.
It's kinda weird but it's not the reason why I will stop supporting the project, the project, community, and team behind Solana are the best and really good.

This article can help you for this Solana outage last month: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-16/solana-network-of-top-10-sol-token-applies-fixes-after-outage

[masterrex]

Solana suffered from high volatility after the network became flooded with transactions.It was because the Solana Mainnet Beta experienced a massive increase in transaction load, peaking at 400,000 TPS. These transactions flood the transaction processing queue, and the lack of prioritization of critical network messages causes the network to start branching. we can monitor : https://solscan.io/txs for transactions and status of Solana failure and major network problems.

IMO, I think it is a technical problem and I have no expertise about it but based on the information that you give the Solana Network was very congested at that time. meaning the system was flooded with more (400,000Tps) Just imagine it was a huge transaction in the queue that waiting to be processed correct me if im wrong, if the Network is not designed to handle that huge volume of transactions what can we expect? I can't find any hole in relation to decentralization/centralization it is a simple system glitch that needs to be improved and fixed so it's not an issue of decentralization/centralization which is portrayed by the OP. I believe that the Solana community is already enlightened about that glitch thats why instead of going down the SOL price achieve another ATH. 

[otundebis]

Decentralisation is the key to freedom,  that is why Solana can not be compare with ethereum and bitcoin in terms of how much decentralisation both ethereum and bitcoin have achieved. Decentralisation take time and input from the community.  Solana will continue to grow and expand and that will require high level of decentralisation if it is going to compete with ethereum and others!

[triat]

Solana suffered from high volatility after the network became flooded with transactions.It was because the Solana Mainnet Beta experienced a massive increase in transaction load, peaking at 400,000 TPS. These transactions flood the transaction processing queue, and the lack of prioritization of critical network messages causes the network to start branching. we can monitor : https://solscan.io/txs for transactions and status of Solana failure and major network problems.

IMO, I think it is a technical problem and I have no expertise about it but based on the information that you give the Solana Network was very congested at that time. meaning the system was flooded with more (400,000Tps) Just imagine it was a huge transaction in the queue that waiting to be processed correct me if im wrong, if the Network is not designed to handle that huge volume of transactions what can we expect? I can't find any hole in relation to decentralization/centralization it is a simple system glitch that needs to be improved and fixed so it's not an issue of decentralization/centralization which is portrayed by the OP. I believe that the Solana community is already enlightened about that glitch thats why instead of going down the SOL price achieve another ATH. 

these delays should not affect the price of Solana in any way, because everyone understands that there cannot be so many transactions every second regularly. This is someone testing the network, or ddos. But I don't think anyone can have enough money to do this.