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> Each half would append their own blocks to the blockchain happily, and depending on the chain lengths added, once the partition went away there would be no go
by jancsika 10y ago
> Each half would append their own blocks to the blockchain happily, and depending on the chain lengths added, once the partition went away there would be no good way to reconcile.
Why do you say that? The chain with the greatest total difficulty wins.
- nordsieck 10y agoThat is not an acceptable form of reconciliation in a CP system.
- eternalban 10y agoBitcoin is AP not CP.
- Dylan16807 10y agoThe hard problem is consistency, in terms of tradeoffs and implementation. Pure AP is easy.
- xyzzyz 10y agoWhat if both happen to have the same total difficulty? Granted, it is unlikely, but so is unlikely a failure of non-paxos system with lease timeouts on the order of ~10 minutes.
- kybernetikos 10y agoWhich means that all the people who wrote to successfully and relied on the other chain over the last week suddenly lose all their transactions. That's not what anyone means by CP.