Forks happen every day. Every time the minority chain dies very quickly. Why should this be different?
Afaik we'd need block a length commitment to be able to distinguish as an SPV/lite wallet. E.g. as a field in the block header. On 03/20/2017 05:04 PM, Manfred Karrer wrote: > Exactly. Also there are many people (including me) who will not consider > the longest PoW chain which follows a different consensus rule as the > valid Bitcoin version. > Beside that for a project like Bitsquare which is a wallet and exchange > there are many potential issues and risks (replay attacks). > I think BitcoinJ needs a feature to distinguish clearly which chain the > user is supporting. > > > Am Montag, 20. März 2017 10:25:49 UTC-5 schrieb Matt Corallo: > > Given it appears likely there will be two separate currencies, it > seems really bad to not have some ability for users to differentiate > between them. Users will end up highly confused when they do a > trade, receive BTU, and deposit it to an exchange only to find no BTC. > > > On March 19, 2017 6:42:57 PM PDT, Amitabh Saxena > <amita...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Will bitcoinj reject larger blocks? > > On Wednesday, March 15, 2017 at 4:38:55 PM UTC+5:30, Andreas > Schildbach wrote: > > As long as a fork does not change the proof of work rules, > bitcoinj > makes no assumptions about forks. It will always select the > chain with > the most work. > > What do you mean by "requesting an UTXO" and what do you > want to achieve > by that? > > > On 03/14/2017 06:07 PM, Manfred Karrer wrote: > > If there would happen really a BU fork SPV wallets could > get a > > connection to a majority of BU nodes and so a different > view to the network. > > Any plans or ideas how to deal with that? > > > > One idea would be to use a UTXO which is known to exist on > only 1 chain > > request that and use that as a check to see which chain > the node is > > operated on. > > If it is not the chain the wallet supports the node gets > disconnected. > > > > Br, > > Manfred > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to > the Google > > Groups "bitcoinj" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails > from it, send > > an email to bitcoinj+u...@googlegroups.com > > <mailto:bitcoinj+u...@googlegroups.com>. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "bitcoinj" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to bitcoinj+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:bitcoinj+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bitcoinj" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bitcoinj+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
