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Didn't bitcoin fork in it's early days and recover? What makes this unrecoverable?
by wdewind 13y ago
Didn't bitcoin fork in it's early days and recover? What makes this unrecoverable?
- smtddr 13y agoEarly enough for not too many people to care. If you tried to fork bitcoin today, it'd would be freakin' OVER++.
- tlrobinson 13y agoThere was an accidental fork less than a year ago. A few miners lost money, but obviously Bitcoin recovered.
- smtddr 13y agohttp://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1a51xx/now_that_its_over_the_blockchain_fork_explained/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1a51xx/now_that_its... That was caught very quickly and due to a software bug instead of a 51% attack, which is the impression that I'm getting concerning Auroracoin's current problem.
- gionn 13y agoIt's usually recoverable by patching the wallet software, so that it recognize the block that caused a fork as an invalid one, so it will be skipped and not taken as the good one.
- sp332 13y agoThis is an active attack by someone with a huge amount of mining power. Those were software bugs that miners were able to coordinate fixes for.
- runn1ng 13y agoIt's actually not. It was a planned hard fork, just a lot of people (including pools and exchanges) did not update. It's going to cause a big mess.