Orphan...ugg
Yeah basically a relay/GFW issue again though.
Well at least it's been 224 blocks since the last orphan.
As usual, our block was all over everywhere outside china before the BTCC block was seen by anyone outside the GFW - but only just, about 100ms to 400ms before on all the relays.
Inside the GFW it was 4.25 seconds after the BTCC block so of course everyone inside the GFW was working on the BTCC block but everyone outside the GFW would have been working on our block.
Our node inside the GFW didn't get the BTCC block to us any faster, probably due to whatever was delaying the block getting outside the GFW.
Anyway, the fact of the matter is the possibilities were:
1) we would have had no block, if the BTCC block got to us faster since we would have changed to that before finding the block
2) we get an orphan (as we did)
3) if we confirmed the block ourselves, we would have won the orphan race - and had 2 blocks
4) we might have found the next block off the BTCC block
Option 4) has the lowest possibility, so the reality is one of: a) no block or orphan or b) confirming our block
So wasn't all bad
until we got orphaned
Aside: well clearly I fixed the orphan detection code since the last time we got an orphan.
