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j"1LAnZuoQdcKCkpDBKQMCgziGMoPC4VQUckM<div class="post"><div class="quoteheader"><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=661.msg7063#msg7063">Quote from: knightmb on August 02, 2010, 05:51:26 PM</a></div><div class="quote"><div class="quoteheader"><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=661.msg7056#msg7056">Quote from: throughput on August 02, 2010, 05:36:01 PM</a></div><div class="quote">Is it at all possible to monitor Bitcoin for network splits?<br/></div>Not easily because it would entail finding out what "blocks" everyone else has. Since everyone is working off the current chain, if you did find a client with "another" chain, it would either be silly short or hacker longer.<br/></div><br/>I, as a merchant, will only care about whether <i>my network</i> is a <b>majority network</b>,<br/>so after a reconnect my transactions will be accepted.<br/>So it will be enough for me to be able to monitor the current number of distinct nodes.<br/>Put that into a graph and stop processing transactions if that number suddenly halves.<br/>It may be a service on a web-server running a Bitcoin node.<br/><br/>But is there a way to monitor that number at all?<br/>If not, it would be wise to add some feature to the standard, which will<br/>allow to determine in real time what is the number of distinct nodes running.</div> text/html