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If there is no double spend between the later arriving block from mars and the block earth already mined the next block could acknowledge both. Basically making
by ema 8y ago
If there is no double spend between the later arriving block from mars and the block earth already mined the next block could acknowledge both. Basically making the blockchain a blocklatice. If I haven't missed anything the only reason it wasn't done like this from the beginning is that when the orphan rate is low it' not worth the additional code complexity.
- rocqua 8y agoInteresting! A block lattice seems like a nice thing. It would be problematic with regards to money creation though. As we get more blocks per 10 minutes, we get more block-rewards (new bitcoin) per minute. It also seems weird to 'amend' history by saying some other stuff also happened. Thinking of this, could you maybe use this to somehow block a payment by adding a 'past block' that already spends the bitcoins in your payment?