A major outage on Amazon Web Services (AWS), the tech giant’s cloud computing platform that supports vast swaths of the internet, threw the cryptocurrency community into chaos on Monday.

The irony of communities that pride themselves on being decentralized being taken down by a centralized failure wasn’t lost on users on social media. As Cointribune reports, entire crypto trading platforms were affected by the outage, causing service disruptions for hours.

Even OpenSea, the biggest exchange of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), was hit hard. A screenshot shared by podcaster and Onion social media editor June Sternbach shows broken images of the Bored Ape Yacht Club collection on OpenSea. The images of unbothered-looking primates was once a highly coveted possession among the crypto-obsessed and

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