"Decentralized"
Metamask hinges on a hardcoded url to their rpc provider. This is something that could have been easily avoided with a smart and cheap tweak to allow for easy failover and redundancy.
When #web3#fails often a #web2 component is involved.
There is currently an outage with Infura, the default RPC provider for MetaMask. We are working to resolve it and it will be fixed as soon as possible. It is safe to try to move tokens around but it will not work at this time due to the outage. You can stay up to date on the status page https://t.co/Nan4mv3K5G
Bitcoin was hijacked. A group of bad actors betrayed Satoshi and corrupted the rise of Bitcoin as a cheap and instant payment tool for the masses to sabotage the rise of crypto as digital money and to install an insecure and custodial second layer to control Bitcoin. Read this:
@CEEJAY_xs@wavesprotocol @Ethicaljohn1 @nwala_francis Unfortunate how waves is spiraling down now. There is another lesson here about personal risk appetite and assessing these risks. Make a plan when trading. In the end you're responsible for buying and selling, and assessing the health of projects you've invested in.