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j"1LAnZuoQdcKCkpDBKQMCgziGMoPC4VQUckM« <div class="post"><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"><div class="quoteheader"><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=661.msg7223#msg7223">Quote from: BeeCee1 on August 03, 2010, 01:07:23 PM</a></div><div class="quote">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. <br/></div>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/><br/></div><br/>No, I am saying that given enough bitcoin users this is likely to happen, there is no need for them to notice that the bitcoin network split, either they notice that they can't check email/access websites outside of their local area and initiate a temporary alternate connection to the "rest of the world" or they just happen to take a laptop with bitcoin on an airplane.<br/><br/>I am also not saying it is a good thing.&nbsp; having a single split for a fairly long period of time lets people come up with a solution, having many splits that each last for a few hours means that transactions randomly disappear and that hurts confidence in the system.</div> text/html