j"1LAnZuoQdcKCkpDBKQMCgziGMoPC4VQUckM(<div class="post"><div class="quoteheader"><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=834.msg9778#msg9778">Quote from: mkrogh on August 16, 2010, 05:33:14 PM</a></div><div class="quote">Let me turn it around. With a global bitxoin system, what is a good reason that nodes can not freeze all blocks older than say 10 hours of accumulated difficulty. Where is the downside? Is it really considered a desired feature that a part of the network can be hidden for many hours and come back again with a long chain? Or is it just that checkpoints <br/>haven't been implemented because the system is still so new?<br/></div><br/>Under such a system, a bad chain (such as the one we fixed yesterday) would get locked in if it lasted more then 10 hours. I'm sorry, but automatic checkpoints are a bad idea.</div> text/html
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