How the Status ICO Almost Crashed the Ethereum Network
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How the Status ICO Almost Crashed the Ethereum Network

THELOGICALINDIAN - Afterdelayingthe official badge auction date from 17th to the 20th the Status aggregation was able to auspiciously barrage the continued advancing Status ICO with an astronomic bulk of contributors abutting in

Status messenger

The ethereum-based agent app, Status, started its official ICO on the 20th of June and was auspiciously able to accession about 300,000 ether with the accepted agnate amount of $99 million.

According to the ethereum arrangement data, the ICO had 20387 participants and distributed 6,804,870,174 tokens.

After the BAT and Bancor ICOs were awash out in an acutely abbreviate bulk of time, abounding users absitively to use the Parity ethereum wallet in adjustment to adapt for the Status ICO.

The adjustment and the astronomic bulk of participants acquired a bottleneck of the ethereum network, which finer additionally acquired that some contributors were not able to accompany the Status ICO.

The ICO accent a lot of apropos apropos the capabilities of the ethereum arrangement and its adeptness to handle such a huge bulk of transactions.

Ethereum Network Congesetion

In a contempo blog post, the Cachet aggregation explained the access of the badge administration and approaching goals of the project.

The aboriginal ambition of the Status aggregation is to administer the Status Genesis Tokens (SGT) to the association associates and contributors that helped Status grow.

Next footfall is the badge administration of their partners, Bitcoinsuisse and ICOage that helped to draw in contributors that alone had authorization assets for investing.

In the final note, Status hoped that the ethereum arrangement and its decentralization aspect would advice added agnate tokens to abound and succeed.

What are your thoughts on the Status project? Where do you see SNT heading? Let us apperceive in the comments below.

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