Yesterday was an interesting day with the attack on Steemit.com.
But I believe it had a very positive side effect.
A lot of people were taught a little bit more about what a blockchain is.
With Steemit.com (website) being down a lot of users realized that busy.org was still up and running. (albeit had trouble logging into busy.org, I could still browse the website) and chainbb was fine too.
That's because Steemit and the Steem blockchain are not the same things.
Steemit is a website that taps into the Steem blockchain and pulls out data and shows it in a way that we are all familiar with.
Busy.org and Chainbb do the same thing and portray the same data in another format.
So yesterday, the blockchain was not attacked but the website Steemit.com was.
The data was therefore safe.
The Steem blockchain is kept alive by Witnesses and the cool thing is they (top 20) get paid from the same reward pool as you and me for doing this job. But it's an important job because without them, no blockchain.
At least that's what I think.
I realized that while making my blog I'm not 100% sure if that's even true.
What would actually be needed to bring down the Steem blockchain? Is it even possible?
If a witness could answer this question I would be very grateful.
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