Kik, once valued at $1B, is to be closed

Re:Kik, once valued at $1B, is to be closed by DINKDINK on Thursday September 26, 2019 @10:27PM (#21087871)

You've moved goalposts. Your original claim was:

A) >It’s impossible to count how many of those abandoned transactions were successfully replayed on the new chain

now it's

B) >nodes don't know if re-org's are happening elsewhere in the network

Claim A is false as it is indeed entirely possible:

I have a chain of height 100. It is fully synced. I am sent a series of blocks diverging at height 80. I have all the information I need to ascertain which of the transactions in the two competing chains are being replayed or have been doublespent.

Claim B is true

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Re:Kik, once valued at $1B, is to be closed by hudon on Friday September 27, 2019 @07:30AM (#21090690)

You're assuming in claim A that your node knows about all abandoned chains. Like I said, that's impossible because nodes don't have total information. I'll simplify and strengthen my claim for you: it's impossible to find all reversed transactions.

The comment I was replying to claimed that transactions can never be reversed. I'm just highlighting how this represents a poor understanding of how Bitcoin really works.

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