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j"1LAnZuoQdcKCkpDBKQMCgziGMoPC4VQUckMž <div class="post"><div class="quoteheader"><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=661.msg7124#msg7124">Quote from: Anonymous on August 03, 2010, 01:24:32 AM</a></div><div class="quote"><div class="quoteheader"><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=661.msg7034#msg7034">Quote from: em3rgentOrdr on August 02, 2010, 04:39:19 PM</a></div><div class="quote"> a mega police force that can break into people's houses to inspect their hard drive, demand passwords at gunpoint, steal everyone's computer and network cables, shut down power, etc..</div>They can do all those things now......the only real thing stopping them is bad pr - hence banning you filming bureaucrats now that so many are being shown for what they are <img alt="Smiley" border="0" src="/static/img/emoticons/smiley.gif"/><br/></div><br/><img alt="Sad" border="0" src="/static/img/emoticons/sad.gif"/><br/><br/>I suppose you are right, unfortunately: They can do all those things now...the only real thing stopping them is bad pr.<br/><br/><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><br/>^^^ good points...I suppose that the demand for connectivity in the smaller network would produce an strong incentive to find <i>some</i> way, no matter how primitive, to connect the two networks.&nbsp; It could even be as primitive as using (physical) snail mail or dialup.<br/></div> text/html