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The witnesses are responsible for the stability of their nodes.

There is a limit to what they can do

I agree with you, @timcliff. It was the very first time I witnessed this kind of challenge in steemit. To tell you the truth, the members of my whatsapp group were freaking out. However, some managed to post using busy.org . Personally, I didn't really put up any post, because steemit.com was down. I only used busy.org to respond to comments on my previous blog posts.

and they would have to hit all of them at the same time...
thats the advantage of a decentralised system is it not?