In September, the Solana network went offline after it was overwhelmed by hundreds of thousands of transactions per second.
It remained down for 17 hours.
The Block spoke to Anatoly Yakovenko, CEO of Solana Labs and co-founder of Solana, in an interview at Solana Breakpoint, in Lisbon. When asked what are the chances the network goes down again, Yakovenko replied, “I don’t know. It doesn’t really matter, though.”
His argument went as follows: as long as there’s at least one copy of the ledger, the funds are still safe and the transactions will eventually get processed. If you don’t care how long a transaction takes to go through, “then how much do you care that there’s a 72 hour block?”
Yakovenko likened the downtime to a particularly long wait between blocks. He claimed that Solana didn’t really go offline, there just wasn’t a confirmed block for that time period. “So that technically does look like a 17-hour block if you look at the history.”
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