Unpopular opinion of the day:
Yes, what happened today with the #Windows infrastructure crash could also happen to #Bitcoin.
Follow me in my reasoning.
I see a lot of people criticizing centralization of the service for today’s crash. In part this is true, for sure.
In fact, Windows and #Crowdstrike are centralized services, and many corporations, banks and so on use their services.
However, do you think that it so different than >80% of people running Bitcoin Core on their nodes? What would happen if Bitcoin Core had a super bug that crashed the entire system?
Of course, the network would not die, as not all the services in the world died today, since they run on other services.
It was not (only) the centralization, but the haste and the carelessness of the release that led to today’s event.
I think there is a huge lesson here, for us bitcoiners: think twice before updating your nodes, think twice when people try to push hasty updates to the Bitcoin code, think twice because bugs exist and can jeopardize the functioning of our beloved protocol.
Thank you for reading through my rant.
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