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Title: What is the longest blockchain fork that has been orphaned to date?
Post by: vite on June 09, 2012, 06:05:18 PM
I am extremely curious


Title: Re: What is the longest blockchain fork that has been orphaned to date?
Post by: Raoul Duke on June 09, 2012, 06:13:36 PM
Don't know, but you can search here http://blockchain.info/orphaned-blocks
Warning: It takes a while to open that page.


Title: Re: What is the longest blockchain fork that has been orphaned to date?
Post by: k on June 09, 2012, 06:16:25 PM
http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/ (http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/) is usually good for getting answers to these type of questions


Title: Re: What is the longest blockchain fork that has been orphaned to date?
Post by: Raoul Duke on June 09, 2012, 06:18:59 PM
http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/ (http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/) is usually good for getting answers to these type of questions

And it seems it was already asked
http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/3343/what-is-the-longest-blockchain-fork-that-has-been-orphaned-to-date


Title: Re: What is the longest blockchain fork that has been orphaned to date?
Post by: rjk on June 09, 2012, 06:59:18 PM
I remember hearing about an Ozcoin stack of orphans that was 9 blocks, apparently AU got somewhat partitioned off the network from the rest of the world. That was a long time ago. I don't know of any greater than that.