Re: [bitcoin-dev] Block size hard fork

2015-08-01 Thread Hector Chu via bitcoin-dev
On 1 August 2015 at 01:17, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > One can quite easily transact in a way to intentionally produce such a > split to seperate the existance of your coins onto the seperate forks; > just as anyone would need to do to perform a reorg-and-respend attack > on a single blockchain. >

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Block size hard fork

2015-07-31 Thread Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev
On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 12:05 AM, Hector Chu via bitcoin-dev wrote: > There is nothing tying > transactions to the blocks they appear in. Transactions can be recieved or accepted in different orders by different nodes. The purpose of the blockchain is to resolve any potential conflicting transacti

[bitcoin-dev] Block size hard fork

2015-07-31 Thread Hector Chu via bitcoin-dev
I haven't seen much discussion on this list of what will happen when the blockchain forks due to larger blocks. I think the debate surrounding this issue is a storm in a teacup, because transactions on the smaller chain can and will appear on the bigger chain also. There is nothing tying transactio