Re:Bitcoin over Tor isn't a good idea
by 3pt14159 on Thursday October 23, 2014 @08:36AM
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That's the way a blockchain works though. If there is a bug in the client that 99% of people use then of course you'll have forking blockchains. And all of this matters less anyway, because clients can fallback to blockchain.info if there is a fork detected, and just warn the user that the client may have a bug.
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> because clients can fallback to blockchain.info if there is a fork detected
Unfortunately bc.i's implementation/instance is not immune to bugs, forking, lying or collusion. I don't know why you would expect it to be.
The point is that it is a trusted enough party. If the client gets a suspicious block it can check against that party as a way of seeing if the client itself may have a bug.
The bitcoin client has a fallback to blockchain.info when it detects a fork? What?
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying.
A client, not, The client.
Say you were writing a client in a different language or for another platform.
Saying I was writing a bitcoin client I would never use some 3rd party as a fallback. As soon as a blockchain fork is detected you stop all transactions and wait for it to be solved by the miners. No other way around it.