Recently, Steem was under attack by spammer who took advantage of a vulnerability which resulted in unstable Witness, Seeds & RPC-Nodes.
This has been fixed via a new Steem version 0.19.3 about an hour ago.
Both my main witness node and backup node have already been upgraded.
I've also signed 1 block on the new version successfully and both nodes are running smoothly.
Great :)
I also upgraded my node.
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Nice!
Funny gifs! Lol
Good to know the lag was due to a spammer and not SteemIt reaching capacity. Was worried that we would effectively be such with only 50,000 active users.
Anyone know the theoretical limits of active users? Can we have facebook level activity?
There are some things which needs tweaking / fixing, but nothing we can't solve!
Steem is still at like 1% of its total capacity, don't worry. :3
Thats good to know, thank you for all your effort to ensure the smooth operation of the steem platform. Bless
Nice to see that your node runs smoothly!
Of course - doing my best there!
Excellent. Really want to be part of Steem's growth. Just getting to know witnesses. Still do not full grasp what it entails. Though, I am thankful for the communication between witnesses and the rest of the community.
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I noticed you wrote spammer and not hacker. Would you mind going into a little bit of detail about either? So there was no attempt to alter the blockchain, just a whole lot of jibberish sent over the network?
What exactly was the change in the new version?
Can you explain it to me or point me to another post explaining it?
thanks for update witness.
i voted for you and you might be vote for me.
How we can avoid that phishing or spammer?
Very good..steemit changing the worlf
Backup node upgrade is a cool update as I know even a backup node is a recent thing... well done!
you guys are fast,,,
i voted for therealwolf as witness..
Imfollowing @therealwolf
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