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j"1LAnZuoQdcKCkpDBKQMCgziGMoPC4VQUckMÚ<div class="post"><div class="quoteheader"><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=661.msg7239#msg7239">Quote from: theymos on August 03, 2010, 02:04:46 PM</a></div><div class="quote">Satoshi posted about this concern:<br/><a href="http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=241.msg2071#msg2071">http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=241.msg2071#msg2071</a><br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=661.msg7230#msg7230">Quote from: throughput on August 03, 2010, 01:33:08 PM</a></div><div class="quote">Yes...<br/>But what you describe is only possible after someone have noticed and prooved the network split is happening.<br/>Do you propose any method to detect the beginning of the network split?<br/></div><br/>You think people would fail to notice an entire ISP/country/continent falling off the Internet?<br/></div><br/>Why do you think, that what you describe will be the only reason for a Bitcoin network split?<br/>And if some people will know that a continent is disconnected, then why all others will be as informed?<br/>And even if everyone will know, that some amount of Internet is disconnected from the rest, then<br/>how would they decide whether that is a good reason to stop processing (and sending) transactions?<br/>ISP disconnectivity is not a rarity today, single misconfiguration may shutdown routing for a whole AS.<br/>Will that be enough reason to stop processing transactions or not?<br/>The same with a country and continent.<br/><br/>The question is not wheter there exists some parts of Internet or Bitcoin network, that will reconnect later.<br/>You may always answer YES here, at every moment they exists. My phone loses signal very often, for example.<br/><br/>The actual question is <br/><div class="quoteheader">Quote</div><div class="quote">Whether I am connected with a network, that <b>will be a majority of nodes</b> on reconnect, or not?</div><br/>It is not possible to give a definitive answer about future, but you may estimate that almost accurately based on the size<br/>of the network before the split and the size of the network after the split.<br/>If your network is not going to be a majority later, then it is safer to use another payment method, I suppose.<br/></div> text/html