Hello all, I'm currently synchronizing a new node and right now, at a progress of a height of 197'324 blocks, I count in my debug.log an aweful amount of 38'447 orphaned blocks which is about 19.5 %.
It has been I while since I watched the synchronization process closely, but this number seems pretty high to me. I'm wondering about the following: would it be possible for a malicious party to generate chains of blocks with low difficulity which are not part of the main chain to slow down the sync process? Build and version information: https://github.com/jmcorgan/bitcoin/tree/026686c7de76dfde6fcacfc3d667fb3418a946a7 (sipa/jmcorgan address index) Rebased with: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/94e1b9e05b96e4fe639e5b07b7a53ea216170962 (almost up-to-date mainline) Compressed debug.log attached: https://www.dropbox.com/s/uvtd91xiwmdmun7/debug.7z?m= (filesize: 7.67 MB, uncompressed: 41.3 MB) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
