This is Carpe Consensus.

Join hosts Ben Schiller and Danny Nelson as they seize the world of crypto.

Welcome to Carpet Consensus. I'm your host, Danny Nelson, the only surviving host after the apocalypse that is layoffs and or holiday breaks. This week, we are joined by Sam Kessler, another

wonderful reporter here at Coin Desk, which is, of course, the network that brings you all these wonderful Coin Desk podcasts. Sam, welcome to the show.

Hey, Danny.

Happy to be here.

Awesome.

And just a listener note, Ben will at some point in the future return.

But not this week.

This week, we're going to be talking about

outages. Outages, outages, outages, outages. The latest outage in crypto world is on the biggest

blockchain, or rather not the biggest blockchain, but the most notable one of late. That's Coinbase's

base. Earlier this week, I think it was on Tuesday, the base chain stopped producing

blocks, which is a wonky way of saying that it stopped working, because if you don't produce

blocks and you're a blockchain, you're not adding anything to the chain. And if you're not

adding anything to the chain, nothing's happening. So, Sam, do we have any idea why nothing was

happening on the base chain?

So they say they being Coinbase.

It's a little bit confusing.

Coinbase, the company created base, the blockchain.

And there's always these divisions that they try to do to make it clear that the blockchain is not the company.

But anyway, in this case, they said that they had a delay in block production due in part to our internal infrastructure requiring a refresh. Then they said the issue was identified and remediated, and they did

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