When Cloudflare Went Down, the Internet’s Weak Spot Was Exposed

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The November Cloudflare outage knocked roughly 20% of its hosted websites offline, including major crypto platforms. The cause was mundane — a software configuration failure — but the impact was massive, highlighting how much of the internet depends on a handful of centralized providers.

Buterin and other Ethereum researchers argue this kind of dependency is exactly what decentralization is meant to address. When services like exchanges and wallets go dark due to upstream failures, it raises uncomfortable questions about whether Web3 infrastructure is truly decentralized — or just layered on top of Web2 weak points.