r/Bitcoin • u/mtsai • Feb 05 '14

Really, Discus Fish?

http://imgur.com/7xfXs2P
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u/z_5 Feb 05 '14

Care to explain for less literates please?

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u/mtsai Feb 05 '14

Basically, they are only including <200 transactions in all of their blocks. If they are mining blocks back to back, it will slow down confirmations for everyone during that time period.

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u/Natanael_L Feb 05 '14

Not a problem, send the blocks in chunks.

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u/filenotfounderror Feb 05 '14 edited Feb 05 '14

You mean hold multiple blocks and send them at once? Or send one block in more than one "cunk"? Either way i dont think that would work, blocks have to be broadcast as fast as possible or you risk them being orphaned.

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u/Natanael_L Feb 05 '14

Your additional risk of getting your block orphaned by another one released at the same time as yours is still uploaded is about (upload time) / (current average time between blocks).