Quote from: BeeCee1 on August 03, 2010, 01:07:23 PM
If enough people are using the network, and the split were not due to open hostilities, it is possible that there would be intermittent connectivity between the two networks. This would serve to re-sync the block chains but could hurt the reliability of the system with transactions disappearing at random.
Imagine a cable cut, or series of cable cuts that isolated a block of countries.
- Someone with bitcoin might initiate an oversees dialup connection
- someone might have a satellite connection
These would probably be intermittent since they may spend most of their time on their ‘normal’ internet since most of what they want is there. Everytime they connected the blocks would start flowing from their computer to the rest of the world, then when they re-connected to their normal service they would flow to the rest of their country.
Someone with bitcoin might fly to one of those countries to visit, when they connected to a local service, the blocks on their computer would flow to the disconnected countries, the longest block chain wins. When they come back, again, the blocks from the disconnected countries would flow to the rest of the world.
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?