THELOGICALINDIAN - Some barter affairs will face delays
Coinbase has appear a status update which suggests that the EOS blockchain has been adversity from “degraded performance” and a “major outage” for the accomplished four days.
These problems accept afflicted Coinbase’s casework in assertive ways, according to the aggregation itself:
This is not the aboriginal time that Coinbase has empiric problems. On Feb. 14 and 17, Coinbase appear agnate outages, acquainted that it is alive through a excess of approachable EOS transactions.
Is EOS Really Causing Problems?
Outside of Coinbase’s issues, EOS appears to be operating as normal.
EOS Nation, which is currently one of EOS’s top three block producers, has empiric a few acting issues on the blockchain. It admits that EOS accomplished a cardinal of microforks and absent blocks on Feb. 20, but it claims that the EOS mainnet is about “extremely reliable.”
EOS New York, addition above EOS block producer, claims that the arrangement is absolutely anatomic and that Coinbase itself is absolutely at fault. It responded to Coinbase’s claims on Reddit today:
“Untrue. The arrangement is operating accomplished and Coinbase is alive accusation abroad from their centralized basement problems. No added article is advertisement issues. None of our ecology shows any issues. They could ability out to any of two dozen abreast block producers for chargeless advice but instead they do this. Exactly what are the problems they see? They accommodate actually no details.”
Coinbase has not about responded to either block producer’s offers of assistance.
EIDOS Airdrop Continues
EOS may technically be operational, but the belvedere is still experiencing bottleneck acquired by an advancing airdrop alleged EIDOS, explained in abounding by Coinbase here.
The motivations abaft EIDOS are unclear, but some accept that it is actuality run to accomplish a point about EOS’s shortcomings.
EIDOS’s allurement archetypal encourages individuals to accomplish abounding affairs for banking gain, and it is currently amenable for over 45 actor EOS affairs per day.
The consistent bottleneck agency that EOS dApp developers charge pay college prices for transaction bandwidth. EIDOS began to drive up CPU prices aftermost November, and those prices are still as aerial as they were then. Note that, on the blueprint below, lower ethics represent college prices:
Though it is accessible that Coinbase’s investigations will acknowledge addition affair entirely, it seems acceptable that Coinbase’s accepted issues are accompanying to EIDOS accustomed its apropos in the past.
Coinbase’s EOS problems should additionally be acclaimed from IOTA’s recent issues, which acquired the IOTA arrangement to shut bottomward entirely—without anon impacting IOTA trading on exchanges.
Update: Block.one has announced that it is alive with Coinbase to boldness the affair as of Feb. 29
