Quote from: throughput on August 03, 2010, 01:33:08 PM
Yes… But what you describe is only possible after someone have noticed and prooved the network split is happening. Do you propose any method to detect the beginning of the network split?
I started another thread along this line elsewhere, but for an individual vendor, a simple watchdog daemon that tracks the average time between blocks since the last official change in difficulty and alerts the vendor if a single block takes more than twice as long as the average, perhaps suspending the acceptance of new coins until the vendor checks to see what is happening. Each block in a row that takes longer than the average increases confidence against a false positive. So if one block takes twice as long as average, followed by a series of blocks that take 75% longer than average, then you can be fairly certain that you are no longer on the majority network.