The team behind Shiba Inu recently took a swipe at Microsoft, one of the largest companies in the world. Microsoft had the largest IT outage in history on Friday, July 19. Businesses around the world were facing shutdowns due to a Microsoft shutdown caused by an outage. The outage came via CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity platform that experienced an issue during a software update. The outage affected critical industries and businesses including the London Stock Exchange, airlines, banks and doctors’ surgeries.
George Kurtz, CEO of CrowdStrikeclaims that the issue has been identified and a fix has been implemented. However, the crash highlighted one of the problems with centralized cloud infrastructure. Rather, it showed how large businesses and the daily activities of users around the world depend on a few centralized systems.
On the other hand, it highlighted one of the advantages of decentralized systems such as blockchain networks. This was recently highlighted on social media platform X, with the Shiba Inu Team make a comparison between Windows and the Shibarium network.
Windows needs to be restarted. Can Shiba Inu do better?
According to a social media after On X, the official Shiba Inu account made a comment about the need to reboot the Windows operating system. The post included a screenshot of a Windows crash page, referencing the recent global crash that affected many Windows users and businesses. This incident drew attention to the reliability issues of the Windows operating system.
In contrast, the message emphasized the stability and reliability of the Shibarium networkThe report further noted that the Shibarium network on the other hand, never skips a beat. “Thankfully @ShibariumNet never skips a beat,” the post said.
This statement underscores Shibarium’s consistent performance and reliability, even on days when it processed millions of transactions. Highlighting this difference, the Shiba Inu account boasts of The Superiority of ShibariumThis comparison suggests that users and developers may find it more beneficial to deploy their projects on the Shibarium network given its track record of stability and resilience.
Overall, the post not only criticizes the recent issues that Windows has been facing, but also serves as a promotional post for the Shibarium network. At the time of writing, Shiba Inu is trading at $0.00001787 and is up 4.5% in the past 24 hours.
Many Bitcoin and cryptocurrency users have also pointed out that despite the widespread banking outages resulting from the crash, cryptocurrencies continued to operate without interruption. Bitcoin, for example, even exceeded $66,000 mark during the crash.
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