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Bitcoin => Development & Technical Discussion => Topic started by: amaclin on October 24, 2016, 08:22:47 PM



Title: testnet reorganization
Post by: amaclin on October 24, 2016, 08:22:47 PM
I am too lazy to count the length of orphan chain after 51%attack reorganization.

Can anybody help me to count blocks in this side chain:
https://test.webbtc.com/block/0000000000af7aac1817b82d377fa989407d607dc1953d63827d8adfa39de85b

I want to know how many confirmations are enough to treat the blockchain immutable  ;D

UPDATE:
... or may be side chain starts here?
https://test.webbtc.com/block/00000000008818f4b21dc6203b9c86f2c8b2aa694c0d46106a5e2baf93dcc691


Title: Re: testnet reorganization
Post by: newIndia on October 24, 2016, 09:07:43 PM
I want to know how many confirmations are enough to treat the blockchain immutable  ;D
6 for the main chain. No idea why test chain would be immutable? There is no significant work done to secure its immutability!


Title: Re: testnet reorganization
Post by: gmaxwell on October 25, 2016, 08:18:12 PM
I want to know how many confirmations are enough to treat the blockchain immutable  ;D
On testnet? infinity?


Title: Re: testnet reorganization
Post by: sugarfly on November 03, 2016, 09:48:03 AM
I want to know how many confirmations are enough to treat the blockchain immutable  ;D

In a mixture of antonopoulos and carl sagan's voice:
"billions and billions of layers of snow"