⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯<p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/telegram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>telegram</span></a>'s blockchain (<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/TonNetwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TonNetwork</span></a>) has halted. blockchains are not supposed to halt under any circumstances (that's kind of the point of the "decentralized" part).</p><p>Either there's a bug (plausible because Ton Network, unlike almost every other blockchain, is not just a copy of the ethereum code) or (more likely IMHO given the timing) someone controlled enough of the nodes to turn off the chain.</p><p>there's $14 billion "worth" of TON tokens riding on this blockchain working. also wonder what's going to happen to all the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Tether" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tether</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/USDT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USDT</span></a> they just released on it.</p><p>update from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gulovsen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>gulovsen</span></a></span> looks like it might be because someone tried to release a dog coin called DOGS on the Ton Network and people were so eager to get it that it crashed the whole network.</p><p><a href="https://tonscan.org/blocks" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">tonscan.org/blocks</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/PavelDurov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PavelDurov</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Durov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Durov</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/blockchain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blockchain</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/crypto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crypto</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/cryptocurrency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cryptocurrency</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/stablecoin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stablecoin</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Toncoin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Toncoin</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/TheOpenNetwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheOpenNetwork</span></a></p>