Topic: Blockchain checker tool ? (Read 734 times)
In light of the recent issues with the block-chain fork, as I understand it 11 blocks were 'rolled back'/orphaned. Was this manually discovered or was there a monitoring program that discovered it ? What if it'd happened during some holidays (christmas for instance) and/or the people able to spot such problems wasn't online, how bad could it've become ? Also, is there some monitor tool that can check for this that would be able to give an alert once a fork happens ? I understand that some blocks get orphaned if two miners solves a block at almost the same time, but I take it that once you have more than one 'invalid' block approved, then we have a fork ?
It's now happened once, could it happen again ? Is it trivial to program such a monitoring tool ? If so, should there be an emergency e-mail list of sorts, where devs and merchants immediately gets notified about problems ?
Thoughts ?
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