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From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail•com>
To: Roy Badami <roy@gnomon•org.uk>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] 0.8.1 ideas
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:27:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAS2fgSLmjhMmmrxjKQ0KOX5EEM4=+Wwebuaw4NHE9LdtLSP6Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130313212243.GQ96148@giles.gnomon.org.uk>

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Roy Badami <roy@gnomon•org.uk> wrote:
> The idea of the client detecting/warning about not-trivial forking
> seems worthwhile too, though, assuming it doesn't already (AIUI it
> doesn't).

It does warn— if its heard the fork and its on the lower difficulty
side. Extending that to also alert if its on the winning side and the
fork is long enough might be wise, though I have a little concern that
it'll be mistaken to be more dependable than it would be.



  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-13 21:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-13 12:56 Luke-Jr
2013-03-13 13:14 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-03-13 15:05 ` Peter Todd
2013-03-13 15:18   ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-03-13 15:26     ` Luke-Jr
2013-03-13 16:04       ` Peter Todd
2013-03-13 17:41 ` Mark Friedenbach
2013-03-13 17:58   ` Pieter Wuille
2013-03-13 18:27     ` Mark Friedenbach
2013-03-13 18:35       ` slush
2013-03-13 18:38       ` Pieter Wuille
2013-03-13 19:30       ` Gregory Maxwell
     [not found]         ` <16B6728E-4220-4DA6-B740-FA38A7C19CCB@thelibertyportal.com>
2013-03-13 20:24           ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-03-13 20:18       ` Luke-Jr
2013-03-13 18:04   ` Luke-Jr
2013-03-13 21:06 ` Andy Parkins
2013-03-13 21:14   ` Luke-Jr
2013-03-13 21:22     ` Roy Badami
2013-03-13 21:27       ` Gregory Maxwell [this message]
2013-03-13 21:36         ` Roy Badami
2013-03-14  0:18           ` Cameron Garnham
2013-03-15 17:06             ` Benjamin Lindner
2013-03-15 19:23               ` Luke-Jr
2013-03-15 19:52               ` Gregory Maxwell

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