Bitcoin Blockchain nearly forks – Accidental Hard Fork almost occurred.

Red-Apple

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this topic was discussed at length when it happened!
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcoincom-almost-forks-the-blockchain-with-buggy-bu-1769542

and until now i don't understand why they saying it like this, calling it a fork and making things so much bigger than it is!
if we start calling every orphan block an accidental fork then we should say this news almost every day.

it was a block against consensus rules and the miners paid for their stupidity. and anyone who is still SPV mining even with the problems that has happened before deserves to pay for it by missing all the rewards they earned from mining on top of the bad block.

and it is worth mentioning that bitcoin is working flawless, the bad block was rejected in 3 seconds.

Sam San

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the Union in the Pula should lead to death or division. violated the original idea of millions of people and every Keeper, when they are combined into pools takes control of millions of units.

bapparabi

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On January 29, it has been discovered that the Bitcoin blockchain nearly forked. The Bitcoin.com Mining Pool was running Bitcoin Unlimited software, and accidentally mined a block greater than 1MB. This block, which is considered as an invalid block under the current Bitcoin consensus rules was rejected by the network. However many mining pools which use SPV mining such as F2Pool were mining on top of this block having only verified the block header, and Bitcoin unlimited nodes attempted to mine on top of it. Viabtc, btcc, f2pool and btc.com all use SPV mining.

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