From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay•com>
To: "mbde@bitwatch•co" <mbde@bitwatch•co>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <Bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Synchronization: 19.5 % orphaned blocks at height 197'324
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 10:20:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJHLa0MPe-Sb_Lf_+rrcFTSsVAwBJROQNMDbTRg3eqWJtCd0pw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53E776D1.1010503@bitwatch.co>
This issue is being worked on, under the category of "headers first
synchronization."
Until that is finished, it is recommended that you download
bootstrap.dat via torrent:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=145386.0
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 9:42 AM, mbde@bitwatch•co <mbde@bitwatch•co> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm currently synchronizing a new node and right now, at a progress of a
> height of 197'324 blocks, I count in my debug.log an aweful amount of
> 38'447 orphaned blocks which is about 19.5 %.
>
> It has been I while since I watched the synchronization process closely,
> but this number seems pretty high to me.
>
> I'm wondering about the following: would it be possible for a malicious
> party to generate chains of blocks with low difficulity which are not
> part of the main chain to slow down the sync process?
>
>
> Build and version information:
> https://github.com/jmcorgan/bitcoin/tree/026686c7de76dfde6fcacfc3d667fb3418a946a7
> (sipa/jmcorgan address index)
> Rebased with:
> https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/94e1b9e05b96e4fe639e5b07b7a53ea216170962
> (almost up-to-date mainline)
>
> Compressed debug.log attached:
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/uvtd91xiwmdmun7/debug.7z?m=
> (filesize: 7.67 MB, uncompressed: 41.3 MB)
>
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Jeff Garzik
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-10 14:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-10 13:42 mbde
2014-08-10 14:07 ` Bob McElrath
2014-08-10 18:07 ` Pieter Wuille
2014-08-10 14:20 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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