Cold Reception? Crypto Critics Ignite After EOS Blockchain 'Freeze

From Coindesk

You may have missed it, but over the weekend, transactions on the live EOS blockchain came to a complete – yet temporary – halt.

Coming less than 48 hours after the much-anticipated blockchain network went live, the announcement kicked off a social firestorm (not to mention a reported 5 percent drop in the value of the network's cryptocurrency).

Some background: the EOS launch, reported last week by CoinDesk, came at the end of a topsy-turvy period illustrated by last-minute code tweaks, an elaborate election of entities tasked with creating the network's transaction blocks, and, of course, the $4 billion EOS token sale.

So, it came as a surprise to some that the network would run into enough trouble that it triggered a failsafe network freeze. And unsurprisingly, critics of EOS were quick to pounce.

Read more: https://www.coindesk.com/cold-reception-crypto-reacted-eos-blockchain-freeze/

Something tells me Hive account@ned is enjoying some schadenfreude at Hive account@dantheman's expense over the launch and amount of bugs with EOS. Block.one's launch of their highly anticipated EOS has been anything but smooth.