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>If the Great Firewall blocks Bitcoin packets, the Bitcoin network would be partitioned and thus fork. Upon unblocking, the shorter Bitcoin chain would be wiped
by brokenmachine 8y ago
>If the Great Firewall blocks Bitcoin packets, the Bitcoin network would be partitioned and thus fork. Upon unblocking, the shorter Bitcoin chain would be wiped out. Ignoring complicated attacks, just imagine that the Great Firewall blocks Bitcoin packets for a week, creating a Chinese fork and non-Chinese fork. Then it unblocks. All of a sudden, the non-Chinese fork would disappear.
Is that true? Is it only based on how long the fork's chain are?
- nanzhong 8y agoThe Bitcoin protocol resolves conflicting forks by choosing the longer one while dropping the shorter one.
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]