The period during which a Blockchain network is unable to fully perform its intended functions, including processing validated Transactions or maintaining Tockchain Consensus. Downtime may include full network unavailability due to outages or partial disruptions, such as temporary consensus failures, where the network remains operational but cannot validate transactions. Downtime is determined by identifying the total time over a defined period during which the network fails to process validated transactions, either fully (outages) or partially (consensus failures), and is typically expressed in seconds, hours, or days depending on the context. Example: If the Tockchain Network experiences a 10-minute outage and 50 Empty Tocks due to consensus issues over a day (86,400 seconds), the downtime is 600 seconds (outage) plus 50 seconds (one second per empty tock), resulting in 650 seconds of total downtime.
Downtime
The period during which a Blockchain network is unable to fully perform its intended functions, including processing validated Transactions or maintaining Tockchain Consensus. Downtime may include full network unavailability due to outages or partial disruptions, such as temporary consensus failures, where the network remains operational but cannot validate transactions. Downtime is determined by identifying the total time over a defined period during which the network fails to process validated transactions, either fully (outages) or partially (consensus failures), and is typically expressed in seconds, hours, or days depending on the context. Example: If the Tockchain Network experiences a 10-minute outage and 50 Empty Tocks due to consensus issues over a day (86,400 seconds), the downtime is 600 seconds (outage) plus 50 seconds (one second per empty tock), resulting in 650 seconds of total downtime.