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2025-11-28 21:20:25

US markets just experienced a wild tech meltdown. Options and futures trading got completely frozen for over 10 hours straight. The culprit? Equipment overheating. Yes, you read that right — sophisticated financial infrastructure brought down by something as basic as heat management. Traders were left staring at blank screens while billions in positions sat in limbo. This kind of disruption at major exchanges raises serious questions about infrastructure resilience in modern finance.

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LiquidationAlert

· 12-01 01:33

Haha, dying of laughter, billions of dollars just because the air conditioning wasn't working? Is financial infrastructure this fragile? Isn't this just a joke? The Wall Street system really isn't that reliable. 10 hours frozen... My God, how many people must be going crazy dumping? Equipment overheating? You should have upgraded a long time ago, brother, what are you playing at? Wait, is this for real? Isn't there a redundancy backup plan? I told you, centralized systems will eventually go GG, this time it's really opened my eyes. Now I remember why I bet on DEX... it really does seem wise now. Billions of positions are just stuck like this, I just want to see who got liquidated over there. Modern financial resilience? Ha, joke. Just this one incident, how many people must be completely disappointed with TradFi?

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MidnightMEVeater

· 12-01 01:09

Ha, ten hours? Is this your centralized exchange's midnight feast — the machine burnt out and took the liquidity with it? Retail investors are waiting to die in the liquidity trap, and miner tips can't save the situation at all. Overheating equipment... Good grief, is this the financial infrastructure? I thought they had some black technology. During these ten hours of options freezing, how many sandwich attacks were unsuccessful? What a pity. Dark pool traders must be popping champagne right now, the cost of centralization — such a fragile constitution. This is what it feels like when the arbitrage range is forcibly closed, billions in positions taken hostage. Cooling down takes ten hours; do you want me to teach you about the decentralization of web3? This operation by the exchange is more outrageous than the gas wars; at least back then the chain was still alive.

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MEVVictimAlliance

· 11-30 14:24

Device overheating and freezing for ten hours? Laughing out loud, is this the traditional financial infrastructure that Web3 is boasting about? Fragile as if made of paper. --- Billions in positions hanging in the air, this is ridiculous... even more outrageous than the gas fees on some chains. --- No way, if they can't even handle heat management, how can they manage my assets? Really something. --- Ten hours, fren, my Solana chain has confirmed millions of transactions in a day. --- So this is the cost of centralization, good thing I've been living on-chain for a long time.

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TopBuyerBottomSeller

· 11-28 21:50

I mean, how ridiculous is this? A multi-trillion level financial system is actually destroyed because of a radiator? The reason for this device overheating just makes me want to laugh... 10 hours? Is that for real? It feels like a black swan event but not quite black enough. Was my position also frozen that day? Damn it. Can you imagine the Wall Street guys just staring blankly, all because of a thermometer? Hurry up and fix it, everyone. Next time, just install an air conditioner in the exchange, haha. Who will compensate for this accident? Retail investors are going to be played for suckers again, right?

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SchroedingerMiner

· 11-28 21:45

The equipment overheating crashed the entire trading system, it's really ridiculous, this is what they call "high-end finance". --- Ten hours? Hundreds of billions in positions just left hanging? Isn't this the true face of TradFi? --- Laughing to death, the infrastructure built with tens of billions can't handle a little heat, yet they still dare to boast about resilience. --- So this is why we need Blockchain; a centralized system can collapse just from a heat issue. --- Traders must have been so frustrated back then, with screens going black for half a day, and money just burned away like that. --- I remember some projects also crashed for this reason, exchanges shouldn't criticize others anymore. --- At this rate, the Bitcoin network seems much more reliable, at least no one can take it down with just an overheating issue. --- This is truly ironic, that financial technology progresses only to stumble over the most fundamental issues.

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MetaverseHobo

· 11-28 21:40

The overheating of the equipment has completely collapsed the financial market, how ridiculous is that, haha --- Trading was frozen for ten hours just because the cooling wasn't done well? That's just unbelievable --- Billions of dollars were lost just like that due to a thermometer, I'm really speechless --- This infrastructure is so fragile, it feels even easier to crash than my Mining Rig --- So I say, no matter how bull a system is, it can't withstand the laws of physics, right? --- Ten hours, brother, how many people got liquidated without even knowing --- Those traders must be so desperate when the screen goes black --- Wow, such a complex financial system actually fell because of cooling, can't laugh about it --- Looks like we need to install air conditioning in the exchange, haha

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OneBlockAtATime

· 11-28 21:39

Can overheating devices freeze the entire market for 10 hours? This infrastructure is too fragile.

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MEV_Whisperer

· 11-28 21:26

Laughing to death, spending billions to build infrastructure only to be taken down by a cooling fan, how ridiculous is that? Centralized exchanges are just like this, when problems arise, they can only collapse. Ten hours frozen? I can trade on-chain much faster than this, is this what they call "the future of finance"? The excuse of equipment overheating is too absurd, can't even handle a cooling system and still have the nerve to claim supremacy. The infrastructure of Wall Street is actually so fragile, no wonder more and more people are turning to on-chain. If this were on-chain, it would have been cleared by arbitrage bots long ago, but we have to wait for them to fix it before we can move, a classic case.

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GhostInTheChain

· 11-28 21:25

Wow, devices can freeze trading for ten hours just because of overheating? How ridiculous is that? Wait, tens of billions in positions are just hanging like this, is this a joke? Oh my god, is this what we trust in "modern finance"? This is hilarious. The infrastructure is so fragile, it's unbelievable. Why are these basic mistakes always ruining everything? If this were on-chain, it would have been attacked to death by now. Wall Street's infrastructure is still less reliable than my home's cooling fan.

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