If you haven’t heard of WienerAI yet, chances are it’ll be a household name by the time Microsoft fixes the issues plaguing its systems. In fact, crypto in general is unaffected by the global IT outage.
The problems were related to a softwate update by cybersecurity company Crowdstrike, which wreaked havoc today on Microsoft systems, landing flights and bringing various healthcare, telecoms and finance services to a standstill.
Warning IT problems could take days to fix https://t.co/R2tRdwSgNv
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It’s not just Crowdstrike giving Microsoft issues, either. On Thursday, airlines and other Microsoft clients in the central US were affected by an outage on the company’s cloud services provider, Azure.
At the time of writing, Bitcoin ($BTC) is actually up 4.8% overnight and 1% in the last hour to trade at $66,114. Similarly, Ethereum ($ETH) added 2.5% overnight to hit $3,485 as of this writing.
Crypto’s global market cap is actually up 3.4% overnight to $2.53 trillion.
You can take all this as a firm indicator that people are betting on the founding ethos of decentralization that runs through virtually every top cryptocurrency.
After all, today’s outage affected centralized systems, which is why the damage was so widespread and ubiquitous.
However, beyond the market leaders, traders have been bundling into one meme coin lately that shows all the signs of becoming a high market cap cryptocurrency. This is all thanks to the sharp IT powering it.
While the Crowdstrike/Microsoft outage proves the need for decentralized technologies like crypto to flourish, WienerAI goes a step further than any other cryptocurrency to take care of its owner in ways that make it arguably less of a speculation than