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From: Roy Badami <roy@gnomon.org.uk>
To: Luke-Jr <luke@dashjr.org>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] 0.8.1 ideas
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:22:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130313212243.GQ96148@giles.gnomon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201303132114.04596.luke@dashjr.org>

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 09:14:03PM +0000, Luke-Jr wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 9:06:44 PM Andy Parkins wrote:
> > On Wednesday 13 Mar 2013 12:56:29 Luke-Jr wrote:
> > > Here's a simple proposal to start discussion from...
> > 
> > It seems to me that the biggest failure was not the development of two
> > chains, but the assurance to users (by the client) that their transactions
> > were confirmed.
> 
> These are both the same thing.

The idea of the client detecting/warning about not-trivial forking
seems worthwhile too, though, assuming it doesn't already (AIUI it
doesn't).

I don't know if there's any automatic monitoring for forks, but if not
I would assume that the core devs and/or Bitcoin Foundation would be
planning to put some in place.  But there's no reason I can see why
end users clients should't be warning of such situations, too, when
they can (obviously they won't always be aware of the fork).

roy



  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-13 21:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-13 12:56 [Bitcoin-development] 0.8.1 ideas Luke-Jr
2013-03-13 13:14 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-03-13 15:05 ` Peter Todd
2013-03-13 15:18   ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-03-13 15:26     ` Luke-Jr
2013-03-13 16:04       ` Peter Todd
2013-03-13 17:41 ` Mark Friedenbach
2013-03-13 17:58   ` Pieter Wuille
2013-03-13 18:27     ` Mark Friedenbach
2013-03-13 18:35       ` slush
2013-03-13 18:38       ` Pieter Wuille
2013-03-13 19:30       ` Gregory Maxwell
     [not found]         ` <16B6728E-4220-4DA6-B740-FA38A7C19CCB@thelibertyportal.com>
2013-03-13 20:24           ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-03-13 20:18       ` Luke-Jr
2013-03-13 18:04   ` Luke-Jr
2013-03-13 21:06 ` Andy Parkins
2013-03-13 21:14   ` Luke-Jr
2013-03-13 21:22     ` Roy Badami [this message]
2013-03-13 21:27       ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-03-13 21:36         ` Roy Badami
2013-03-14  0:18           ` Cameron Garnham
2013-03-15 17:06             ` Benjamin Lindner
2013-03-15 19:23               ` Luke-Jr
2013-03-15 19:52               ` Gregory Maxwell

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