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Re:Bitcoin over Tor isn't a good idea by psykovsky on Thursday October 23, 2014 @09:59AM (#8498123)
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.
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Re:Bitcoin over Tor isn't a good idea by 3pt14159 on Thursday October 23, 2014 @03:22PM (#8500174)
A client, not, The client.

Say you were writing a client in a different language or for another platform.

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Re:Bitcoin over Tor isn't a good idea by psykovsky on Thursday October 23, 2014 @04:48PM (#8500652)
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.
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