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Re:Bitcoin blockchain issue - Mt Gox Bitcoin deposits tempor... by saurik on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @02:38AM (#5360581)
What if, rather than a client failing blocks that should succeed, a client is designed that accepts things (and generates things) that should fail, and yet becomes the most popular client among a very large subgroup (either by accident, or on purpose). I think that's the question being asked with regards to the "Asia, banks, etc." scenario.
Re:Bitcoin blockchain issue - Mt Gox Bitcoin deposits tempor... by gizmo686 on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @07:12PM (#5365644)
Those are equivelent scenerios. If client A generates and accepts coins that client B rejects, it is the same as client B regecting the same coins that client A accepts.
Re:Bitcoin blockchain issue - Mt Gox Bitcoin deposits tempor... by saurik on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @09:48PM (#5366296)
Yes: I understand that they are equivalent in the final problem, which is precisely why I went to the effort to try to make the formation more specific; the argument ewillbefull was making that it is highly unlikely for this kind of thing to be a problem due to probabilistic reasons doesn't apply when you setup the problem in reverse.