Litecoin Did Not Have Downtime. A Reorg Is Not A Halt.
Multiple media outlets reported Litecoin as having 'downtime' or a 'network halt' during the April 25, 2026 incident. The on-chain record shows the opposite: 14 consecutive blocks were produced during the event. A halt means the chain stops. A reorg means the chain produces competing forks and one wins. These are not the same thing.
- Litecoin produced blocks continuously throughout the April 25 incident — no halt occurred
- 14 blocks were produced on the eventually-discarded fork
- A reorg replaces blocks retroactively; a halt stops new block production entirely
- Block timestamps and heights definitively show continuous block production
- The term 'downtime' is factually incorrect for what happened on April 25
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