Would a decent status page be an actually intelligent use of blockchain? We could have a global network of computers responsible for determining a consensus on whether a service is truly and actually down or not. It could be captured in an independent ledger, and ideally used as a canonical determination for status pages, SLA disputes, etc.
They built a house of straw. The thundering machines sputtered and stopped. Their leaders talked and talked and talked. But nothing could stem the avalanche. Their world crumbled.
The cities exploded. A whirlwind of looting, a firestorm of fear. Men began to feed on men.
On the roads it was a white line nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice. And in this maelstrom of decay, ordinary men were battered and smashed.
Except for one man armed with an AK-47, and a Honda full of silver. As he stood on the bluff, looking down at the desert spread for miles before him, a man approached, darkly.
“Instead of silver bars, have you considered blockchain for this?”
downdetector already does basically this effectively enough and is dramatically simpler in terms of technology. You don't really need to be overly complex about consensus for things like this - if a sufficiently large population reports something down, it's down, because the stakes aren't high enough for enough bad actors to be an issue.
This is compounded by the fact that there's no objective truth about whether something is down (as evidenced by this thread, outages are often not global or not across the entire service)
