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j"19HxigV4QyBv3tHpQVcUEQyq1pzZVdoAutMÙ<div class="post">If enough people are using the network, and the split were not due to open hostilities, it is possible that there would be intermittent connectivity between the two networks.&nbsp; This would serve to re-sync the block chains but could hurt the reliability of the system with transactions disappearing at random.<br/><br/>Imagine a cable cut, or series of cable cuts that isolated a block of countries.<br/><br/>- Someone with bitcoin might initiate an oversees dialup connection<br/>- someone might have a satellite connection<br/><br/>These would probably be intermittent since they may spend most of their time on their 'normal' internet since most of what they want is there.&nbsp; Everytime they connected the blocks would start flowing from their computer to the rest of the world, then when they re-connected to their normal service they would flow to the rest of their country.<br/><br/>Someone with bitcoin might fly to one of those countries to visit, when they connected to a local service, the blocks on their computer would flow to the disconnected countries, the longest block chain wins.&nbsp; When they come back, again, the blocks from the disconnected countries would flow to the rest of the world. </div> text/html