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Despite "decentralized" label, an Amazon outage took down this cryptocurrency exchange

Posted by mtset
Tags: cryptocurrency, defi, resiliance, outages, decentralization, technology, amazon.web services, author.jordan pearson, source.motherboard
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxdnxy/amazons-server-outage-took-down-a-decentralized-crypto-exchange

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Amazon's Server Outage Took Down a 'Decentralized' Crypto Exchange
Published
Dec 8 2021

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    The recent AWS outage took down dYdX, despite its supposed status as a "decentralized" exchange which operates directly on the blockchain virtual machine.

    The recent AWS outage took down dYdX, despite its supposed status as a "decentralized" exchange which operates directly on the blockchain virtual machine.

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