everyone has their idea of what a blockchain is "supposed" to be or to do

"the entire point of a blockchain is to stay up"

says who?

technically the point of a chain is to prevent double spends in a p2p network

everything else is folklore and subjective

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(this is also not to do with Solana, many blockchains go down — I'm asking as a general principle of blockchains)

How does this work? Am I supposed to repost my X reply over here too?

sure - "always on" is a massively important assumption for many defi apps though... notably lending markets.

Yes it’s subjective, but if goal of your chain is to be a place to build consumer products and trading apps (as opposed to say “digital gold”), surely need uptime as good as an aws multi- region setup? That standard is good enough for a lot of use cases.