The STEEM blockchain hit a bit of trouble over the last 24 hours as a software update threw the entire network into disarray, with pages from the Steemit social network no longer loading. Developers announced that they were fixing this issue yesterday, saying that they are “hard at work” to solve the issues.
https://twitter.com/SteemNetwork/status/1041696007342440451
About ten hours later, the social network announced that its block producers were slowly coming back online, getting the site working as it should, though Steem’s own node still had yet to return.
https://twitter.com/SteemNetwork/status/1041828629292961792
A few users later complained that their deposits in various exchanges were still unconfirmed as they did not appear on the blockchain. We have no word on whether these issues have been fixed.
Blocktrades, one of the Steem blockchain’s block producers, sent out an explanation this morning regarding the incident.
“During this time, we along with many of the other top 20 block producers (as well as some notable other witnesses such as @abit who donated some...
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