Despite cypher downtime since its inception, Bitcoin (BTC), still has some catching up to do with New York City'southward subway system.

Wednesday was the first time in its 115-twelvemonth history that New York Metropolis purposely shut down its main transportation artery. The reanimation will allow workers to deep clean all transit cars in an effort to forestall the further spread of COVID-19.

Subway Map of Bitcoin Forks. Source: Bitcoin Mag

Meanwhile, Bitcoin has been clogging along without whatsoever interruptions since its genesis block. Mined on Jan 3, 2009, the genesis block held the now-famous Coinbase transaction:

"The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of 2nd bailout for banks".

Bitcoin — unintended fork

That is not to say that Bitcoin has never had any hiccups. Possibly, the most notable technical glitch in its history came in 2022 when an upgrade to the new version of Bitcoin Core software caused a blockchain fork — where a concatenation dissever into 2. Miners who had upgraded to the newer version of the software were forced to downgrade before the bug was resolved.

This brings us to the event of whether decentralized systems are inherently more robust than the centralized ones. The argument relies on the fact that the former do not have or at to the lowest degree, in theory, should not accept a unmarried betoken of failure. Notwithstanding, we practise not yet have plenty empirical show to rule in decentralization's favor.

If Bitcoin keeps on running for another 104 years without any break, we expect that consensus on the issue will be reached.