According to @ItsDave_ADA, Solana is fast but fails often with frequent outages, and verifying historic transactions requires considerable resources, making reliability a core risk factor for traders evaluating SOL exposure, source: @ItsDave_ADA on X Sep 15, 2025. According to @ItsDave_ADA, engineering reliability should outweigh raw throughput, suggesting traders focus on uptime and verification costs when pricing SOL relative to ADA and other Layer-1s, source: @ItsDave_ADA on X Sep 15, 2025.

According to André Dragosch (@Andre_Dragosch), the Bitcoin network has maintained a 100% uptime since 2014, and approximately 99.99% since its inception, indicating its reliability and robust performance over the past decade.