What if the .7 chain never catches the .8 chain?
Correct me if I'm wrong but if many miners abandon the .8 chain won't the difficulty adjust down, so that even though there are much few miners on the .8 chain they will still be able to stay ahead of the .7 chain due to the decreased difficulty?
If this were to happen would the .7 miners have to concede defeat to the .8 chain and switch or would they continue on and at that point we'd have 2 versions of bitcoin?
The .8 chain still seem to be growing and still has pools mining it?
Topic: Alert: chain fork caused by pre-0.8 clients dealing badly with large blocks - page 16. (Read 155551 times)
March 12, 2013, 12:40:47 AM
March 12, 2013, 12:40:02 AM
Please explain how the timestamp of block 225449(2013-03-12 05:30:02) is before block 225448(2013-03-12 05:33:45)?
one of the two has the wrong time on their server
March 12, 2013, 12:38:51 AM
Please explain how the timestamp of block 225449(2013-03-12 05:30:02) is before block 225448(2013-03-12 05:33:45)?
March 12, 2013, 12:32:01 AM
Is it working? Is the Orphaned chain growing or what?
Seems to be faster then expected.
March 12, 2013, 12:31:28 AM
Before I knew this was going on, I sent 2btc to my Mtgox account. After I found out, I downgraded to 7.2 and synched up. Now the transaction still shows but 0 confirmations. I wonder how long it's going to take to confirm, or get cancelled or whatever. I just hope my BTC don't disappear into limbo.
Have a transaction from 8 blocks ago showing as confirmed but has not shown on the other end. On 0.8.
March 12, 2013, 12:31:15 AM
Is it working? Is the Orphaned chain growing or what?
March 12, 2013, 12:30:37 AM
Mt. Gox and others closing down their exchanging is perfectly reasonable when compared to the real world. Stock markets have been closed after major disasters to stock panic sales and there are automatic safeguards in place that stop a stock price from plunging too fast to quickly, it protects the market the company and possibly the consumer if their reason for selling was more panic than logic. Seeing as bitcoin has no governing body it was up to individual companies to decide if they were gonna place a freeze and not all of them did.
March 12, 2013, 12:27:33 AM
I just wish I could access blockchain.info. Apparently some interaction between their DDoS protection and my internet connection prevents me from accessing their site 90% of the time.
March 12, 2013, 12:26:55 AM
Before I knew this was going on, I sent 2btc to my Mtgox account. After I found out, I downgraded to 7.2 and synched up. Now the transaction still shows but 0 confirmations. I wonder how long it's going to take to confirm, or get cancelled or whatever. I just hope my BTC don't disappear into limbo.
March 12, 2013, 12:25:17 AM
http://blockchain.info/blocks/1363065731715
This page is a bit more interactive, you can see the red orphaned block "climbing" up the ladder, once it's near the top then we are close.
This page is a bit more interactive, you can see the red orphaned block "climbing" up the ladder, once it's near the top then we are close.
March 12, 2013, 12:20:27 AM
Have all the major pools Downgraded? I'm mining on Deep bit.
The price is going to take a nose dive in the morning.
The price is going to take a nose dive in the morning.
March 12, 2013, 12:17:34 AM
ok, how long it's expected to take until it's safe to transfer coin
When this page changes from Branch: main to Branch: side.https://coinbase.com/network/blocks/000000000000015c50b165fcdd33556f8b44800c5298943ac70b112df480c023
http://blockchain.info/block-height/225430
When the 243-kB block becomes "Main chain" and the 975-kB block becomes "Orphaned," that will mean the reorganization has finished.
March 12, 2013, 12:15:08 AM
...unless a miner adds another block to the 0.8 chain, in which case the height to beat will be greater than 225454.
yeah, true enough. but then that'd show up on blockchain.info's main page
March 12, 2013, 12:14:51 AM
Always the most interesting things on market happens when I am asleep
+1
March 12, 2013, 12:14:39 AM
...unless a miner adds another block to the 0.8 chain, in which case the height to beat will be greater than 225454.
March 12, 2013, 12:13:26 AM
Always the most interesting things on market happens when I am asleep
March 12, 2013, 12:11:03 AM
I guess try sending a payment to yourself see what happens.
March 12, 2013, 12:10:13 AM
Is it concerning at all that the devs and the large mining pools just colluded to do a 51% attack ?
good point, hah
re: no blocks on blockchain.info
http://blockchain.info/block-index/357994/000000000000005e291bf3293572918bd24bfda9c17ee863b26e8386b1fe1d22
oh, and this is what you want to watch:
http://blockchain.info/orphaned-blocks
until it hits 225454
March 12, 2013, 12:07:17 AM
ok, how long it's expected to take until it's safe to transfer coin
When this page changes from Branch: main to Branch: side.https://coinbase.com/network/blocks/000000000000015c50b165fcdd33556f8b44800c5298943ac70b112df480c023
March 12, 2013, 12:05:29 AM
ok, every software has its bugs. Anyway, the soonest you discover and correct the bug, the better 
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