Most cryptocurrencies of the world have been decentralized in many ways. It is true especially when it comes to nodes and other entities which protect the networks. For the case of NEO, it is like one of its remaining failure points recently caused a few issues.
It always catches attention to see how community nodes perform. Like most networks have heaps if not tons of nodes, there ought to by no means be any central failure level. However, that’s not the case at all time. Any foreign money has some node centralization downside. Nevertheless, it barely causes any main points.
For the case of NEO, that current state of things has been entirely different especially over the past few months. Lately, the community got here to a halt due to one of the many crashing community nodes.
Further, one of the many consensus nodes got disconnected all over the consensus course of itself. As a result, all the nodes remaining had been ready indefinitely for a response from this node.
Even after the node in question is restarted, it didn’t turn out to be part of the consensus that was pending. This led to delay for many hours until the NEO network begun moving along again.
What was required was only a matter of restarting all the nodes through a ‘forced changeview’ that shows the amount of centralized control is with NEO. This has become a common problem for quite some time now, even though the team is keenly working on further decentralizing this ecosystem.
There is no doubt the most recent issue has caused many problems for the users of NEO network. Unfortunately, nothing much can be done when such things happen, because it is for the developers to find solutions to these problems whenever they arise.
Individual users cannot do anything since the network’s consensus nodes cannot be operated by the users themselves as at now. However, the issue will be addressed shortly, more specifically when KPN launches its network node for this ecosystem.