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You've moved goalposts. Your original claim was: A) >It’s impossible to count how many of those abandoned transactions were successfully replayed on the new c
by DINKDINK 7y ago
You've moved goalposts. Your original claim was:
A)
>It’s impossible to count how many of those abandoned transactions were successfully replayed on the new chain
now it's
B)
>nodes don't know if re-org's are happening elsewhere in the network
Claim A is false as it is indeed entirely possible:
I have a chain of height 100. It is fully synced. I am sent a series of blocks diverging at height 80. I have all the information I need to ascertain which of the transactions in the two competing chains are being replayed or have been doublespent.
Claim B is true
- hudon 7y agoYou're assuming in claim A that your node knows about all abandoned chains. Like I said, that's impossible because nodes don't have total information. I'll simplify and strengthen my claim for you: it's impossible to find all reversed transactions. The comment I was replying to claimed that transactions can never be reversed. I'm just highlighting how this represents a poor understanding of how Bitcoin really works.