# @binji_x: Ethereum has been online ten years straight with zero downtime

Source: https://x.com/binji_x/status/1949423963383451822
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/binjix-Ethereum-has-been-online-ten-years-straight-with-zero-downtime?index=0x68861d3230dc23d634133b0b905e7b0c172e304846e160fd0f771e8f1cf1722baef230fd
Submitted by pedrovilela.eth on 2025-07-27 UTC, 9 upvotes, 0 comments

## Summary

Ethereum has run for ten years with no pauses or maintenance windows, and the post credits its uptime to its community rather than to any company or central operator. The post contrasts this with Facebook, which went down for 14 hours, AWS Kinesis, which froze for 17 hours, and Cloudflare, which dropped 19 datacenters. It says Ethereum has kept running through forks, crashes, bubbles, lawsuits, hacks and wars, because developers, stakers, researchers and users, described as millions of people worldwide, keep choosing to participate.

## Article

ethereum has been online ten years straight with zero pauses and zero maintenance windows.

in that time:

- facebook went down for 14 hours
- aws kinesis froze for 17
- cloudflare dropped 19 datacenters
- alt L1s…well, you know. 

every centralised giant blinks, they rely on on-call humans and scheduled downtime.

but ethereum never stops, not through forks, crashes, bubbles, lawsuits, hacks, wars, and every kind of drama the internet can throw at it.

and it’s not thanks to a CEO or a hotline.
it’s not because someone saved it.

it’s because we all did.

devs, stakers, researchers, users, 
millions of us, scattered across the world, choosing to show up, block after block, year after year. 

while banks fail, clouds go dark and servers get patched, ethereum keeps going. 

we keep going. 

ten years online.
forever to go.