{"id":15362,"date":"2024-07-19T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/global-windows-outage-sparks-surge-in-meme-coins\/"},"modified":"2024-07-19T15:47:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T12:47:00","slug":"global-windows-outage-sparks-surge-in-meme-coins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/global-windows-outage-sparks-surge-in-meme-coins\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Windows Outage Sparks Surge in Meme Coins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Users have launched dozens of new tokens dedicated to CrowdStrike and Microsoft&#8217;s &#8220;blue screen of death&#8221; (BSoD) amidst a global outage of the tech giant&#8217;s systems and services.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Microsoft Windows users right now. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/crowdstrike?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#crowdstrike<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bsod?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#bsod<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l153GL0xwU\">pic.twitter.com\/l153GL0xwU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tommy (@tferris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tferris\/status\/1814198867094872266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Issues with Windows <span data-descr=\"any device operating in a client-server format\" class=\"old_tooltip\">hosts<\/span> were caused by a defective update of CrowdStrike&#8217;s Falcon Sensor security product. The company&#8217;s CEO, George Kurtz, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/George_Kurtz\/status\/1814235001745027317\">stated<\/a> that the error was &#8220;identified, isolated, and fixed.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, the outage affected numerous organizations and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/linuxopsys\/status\/1814218156216295741\">enterprises<\/a> worldwide, including <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/techAU\/status\/1814194514405552211\">airports<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Alzain55M\/status\/1814184498537341185\">healthcare institutions<\/a>, and media. (The photo in the post above features the famous &#8220;Sphere&#8221; in Las Vegas).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The incident prompted the launch of themed meme coins. One of the most popular was BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH (MICROSUFT) on Solana. The coin&#8217;s price surged by 117% within hours of trading, with a market capitalization reaching $134,000.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dexscreener.com_MICROSUFT_SOL_2024-07-19_14-50-09-1024x453.png\" alt=\"dexscreener.com_MICROSUFT_SOL_2024-07-19_14-50-09\" class=\"wp-image-237348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dexscreener.com_MICROSUFT_SOL_2024-07-19_14-50-09-1024x453.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dexscreener.com_MICROSUFT_SOL_2024-07-19_14-50-09-300x133.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dexscreener.com_MICROSUFT_SOL_2024-07-19_14-50-09-768x340.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dexscreener.com_MICROSUFT_SOL_2024-07-19_14-50-09.png 1099w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">15-minute chart of MICROSUFT\/SOL on the decentralized exchange Raydium. Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/dexscreener.com\/solana\/1ccev3hdngrmetm6w2vjsexhzxci14gyxpacjqevdrg\">DEX Screener<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Corresponding figures for Meowcrosoft (MS) <a href=\"https:\/\/dexscreener.com\/solana\/cja2jp7e8gopxvkbfchxsdcvxtbsdqwwc1k8nkhclmez\">reached<\/a> 223% and $204,000. Trading volumes for both assets exceeded $1 million.<\/p>\n<p>The token Micro n Soft (MNS) at the time of writing had nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/dexscreener.com\/solana\/eh6ftnazvncsktoujjntumhr4776pcvarlesoh2rmzqn\">returned<\/a> to its initial quotes, but traders executed over 4,500 transactions with the asset.<\/p>\n<p>The meme coin CrowdStrike launched on Ethereum <a href=\"https:\/\/dexscreener.com\/ethereum\/0x846064b196ca56e5fd52ad4186b64a9f6a3e2bbc\">achieved<\/a> a market capitalization of $174,000 with a trading volume of $519,000.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DEX-Screener-Search-CrowdStrike-Google-Chrome.webp\" alt=\"DEX-Screener-Search-CrowdStrike-Google-Chrome\" class=\"wp-image-237349\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/dexscreener.com\/search?q=CrowdStrike\">DEX Screener<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tokens <a href=\"https:\/\/dexscreener.com\/ethereum\/0xab619632c835e041af79803628bbdb1257c9273c\">Blue screen of death<\/a> (BSOD) and <a href=\"https:\/\/dexscreener.com\/base\/0x5c9aef0cd4f37b1fe82a3d10a4d105411c5f193f\">Blue Screen Of Feath<\/a> (BSOD) on Ethereum and the L2 network Base respectively did not attract significant investor interest. The combined value of the former is just $5,900, and the latter $42,000.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the second quarter, meme coins emerged as the most popular narrative in the crypto industry, accounting for a 14.34% share, according to CoinGecko.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users have launched dozens of new tokens dedicated to CrowdStrike and Microsoft&#8217;s &#8220;blue screen of death&#8221; (BSoD) amidst a global outage of the tech giant&#8217;s systems and services. Microsoft Windows users right now. #crowdstrike #bsod pic.twitter.com\/l153GL0xwU \u2014 Tommy (@tferris) July 19, 2024 Issues with Windows hosts were caused by a defective update of CrowdStrike&#8217;s Falcon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1301,1161,15,596,1636],"class_list":["post-15362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-blockchain-vulnerabilities","tag-memes","tag-microsoft","tag-tokens","tag-windows"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"21","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}