Here's a fascinating metric worth knowing - when it comes to blockchain uptime, Litecoin leads the pack. But let's look at Bitcoin's track record too, since most people assume it's flawless.

Bitcoin maintains a 99.98% uptime rate since 2009. That said, there were exactly two downtime incidents:

1. **2010** - The Value Overflow Incident knocked Bitcoin offline for roughly 8-9 hours
2. **2013** - A database-related issue caused about 6 hours of downtime

What's remarkable isn't just the numbers themselves, but how rare these events actually are. That's the kind of reliability that keeps networks running smoothly at scale.