Hey folks, just wanted to write a short post today updating you on a few new developments with EOS and leaving a few tools here for you to play around with.
It has been an exciting week with a lot of new developments and for the most part I'm really impressed with the current set of main BPs and what they are doing to improve the ecosystem at the moment.
Yesterday I must admit I was alarmed that EOS needed to be paused yesterday due to some minor errors but the BPs managed to get it fixed in under 5 hours and its running and purring like a kitten as I write this now!
Here are a few important details about the incident for readers:
Less than 48 hours after going live, the EOS Mainnet has “paused,” according to multiple reports on Twitter and a Steemit post by the top 21 EOS block producers (BPs), June 16.
While the BPs and “many standby nodes” scramble “to identify and fix the issue,” transactions appear to be ”frozen” on the EOS Mainnet. The cause of the freeze in transactions is still unclear, with the EOS Mainnet Status Update on Steemit claiming to be addressing the issue.
EOSUK, one of EOS’ BP candidates, reports that the EOS network monitor currently shows multiple BPs displayed as “red,” meaning that their application programming interfaces (APIs) are not responding.
Now I don't want to point any fingers and it is unclear what exactly happened beyond a glitch that needed patching.
Obviously, this is very normal considering EOS just launched 48 hours ago.
What excites me more are the new tools being developed for EOS.
At the moment I can recommend two that I've found incredibly useful:
1.) The GreyMass EOS Voter - https://github.com/greymass/eos-voter
2.) Scatter EOS wallet - https://get-scatter.com/
One thing that these two tools are missing is the ability to create accounts. Fortunately it seems that Genereos BP just released a full set of tools with account creation being one of them. I'm still working out how to create new accounts with their new GUI and getting 'transaction failed' response. I hope they can modify this tutorial a bit or help me walk through creation in their discord channel.
For people more technically adept than me, check out this tutorial and hop over to their toolkit page!
https://steemit.com/eos/@genereos/eos-toolkit-tutorial-more-features-than-ever
https://toolkit.genereos.io/staking
For now I'm going to keep trying to solve the puzzle and get some new accounts on the books. I am not a developer by trade so using the official EOS Block.One command line tool CLEOS is a bit beyond my pay grade as well. The race is on to build on EOS now! Very excited about what the future holds!
Source:
EOS Mainnet Experiences ‘Freeze’ Two Days After Launch - CoinTelegraph
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