justforbtc (OP)
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July 05, 2015, 08:09:09 AM |
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Yestoday, we experienced a fork. For average people, they even don't know what is fork. They just care whether their transactions are safe.
I want wallets and online blockchain information site(like blockchain.info) can detect ongoing fork and issue warning immediately.
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Amph
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July 05, 2015, 08:11:37 AM |
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isn't this the whole point of the alert key? last version of core was unaffected, this is why that version didn't tell you about the fork, but 0.10.1 rc1 version did that, there were some users said so in the thread about the spv incident
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July 05, 2015, 08:25:58 AM |
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The blocks were invalid, and has no transactions. afaik the only thing that was a problem would happen if the block reward was spent to a user that didnt wait for ~30 confirmations like stated in the warning. But as far as i know, that didn't happen. Always use the latest update of wallet, and you should be safe, atleast that's what i experienced with bitcoin core.
cheers
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July 05, 2015, 09:58:03 AM |
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there were some users said so in the thread about the spv incident
Many ppl already lost their money after noticing this incident. Yestoday, we experienced a fork. For average people, they even don't know what is fork. They just care whether their transactions are safe.
I want wallets and online blockchain information site(like blockchain.info) can detect ongoing fork and issue warning immediately.
Yes, good suggestion. It will help us get alert when fork is happening. Then we know what we should do to avoid losing money!
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July 05, 2015, 11:25:17 AM |
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Bitcoin Core will automatically go into safe mode (which issues a warning and prevents new transactions being sent unless overridden) if it detects it is on the wrong side of a fork. This didn't happen in this case because Bitcoin Core (the later versions at least) wasn't on the wrong side hence there was no risk to users.
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jonald_fyookball
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July 05, 2015, 01:18:49 PM |
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Bitcoin Core will automatically go into safe mode (which issues a warning and prevents new transactions being sent unless overridden) if it detects it is on the wrong side of a fork. This didn't happen in this case because Bitcoin Core (the later versions at least) wasn't on the wrong side hence there was no risk to users.
Can you explain how this works? How does it know there is a fork at all and which side it is on?
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July 05, 2015, 02:11:13 PM |
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Yestoday, we experienced a fork. For average people, they even don't know what is fork. They just care whether their transactions are safe.
I want wallets and online blockchain information site(like blockchain.info) can detect ongoing fork and issue warning immediately.
Are you really asking thing? I mean, Im sure the dev know what they do. You could maybe suggest but look like what you ask already exist.
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July 05, 2015, 02:18:35 PM |
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Can you explain how this works? How does it know there is a fork at all and which side it is on?
It knows there is a fork because it stores all orphaned or invalid blocks it receives. It specifically checks for either a major chain reorg (more than 6 blocks deep), or an invalid blockchain (one containing invalid blocks) with more proof-of-work than the best valid chain. Either of these conditions indicate that something has gone horribly wrong.
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July 05, 2015, 02:43:58 PM |
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for the average folk that dont want to deal with the complete blockchain i would recommend using electrum, then if your mining your not an average bitcoin users most up to date on news and block statistics.
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July 05, 2015, 02:49:31 PM |
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I am using the latest version of Bitcoin Core and did exactly before whatever it is shown in the warning, but never got warned about the fork by the wallet itself.
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justforbtc (OP)
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July 05, 2015, 06:12:26 PM |
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Bitcoin Core will automatically go into safe mode (which issues a warning and prevents new transactions being sent unless overridden) if it detects it is on the wrong side of a fork. This didn't happen in this case because Bitcoin Core (the later versions at least) wasn't on the wrong side hence there was no risk to users.
Thanks for your answer!
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July 06, 2015, 09:39:08 AM |
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for the average folk that dont want to deal with the complete blockchain i would recommend using electrum, then if your mining your not an average bitcoin users most up to date on news and block statistics.
Even using electrum has some extent of risks. Because you don't know which server you are connecting, and what version of bitcoin qt they are using. The best practice is to run your own bitcoin qt wallet locally with the newest version software.
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BTCjust
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July 06, 2015, 10:02:47 AM |
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Bitcoin client updated yesterday.
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July 06, 2015, 12:11:47 PM |
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for the average folk that dont want to deal with the complete blockchain i would recommend using electrum, then if your mining your not an average bitcoin users most up to date on news and block statistics.
Even using electrum has some extent of risks. Because you don't know which server you are connecting, and what version of bitcoin qt they are using. The best practice is to run your own bitcoin qt wallet locally with the newest version software. unfortunately this is true to some extent. but you can choose which server you are joining. click on the green circle on the lower right corner, un-check the auto-connect, select which server you prefer. after connecting to a server, in the console tab there is the information about the server you have connected to. but the problem is that only some of them inform what version of bitcoin they are using.
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July 06, 2015, 02:11:25 PM |
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for the average folk that dont want to deal with the complete blockchain i would recommend using electrum, then if your mining your not an average bitcoin users most up to date on news and block statistics.
Even using electrum has some extent of risks. Because you don't know which server you are connecting, and what version of bitcoin qt they are using. The best practice is to run your own bitcoin qt wallet locally with the newest version software. Yeah but Bitcoin will never be a mainstream success if you have to depend on the slow, heavy full client. We need functional and fully trustable non-full clients or else we die. If its now annoying running a full client for the average user, imagine in the future when the blockchain is way heavier.
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July 06, 2015, 04:05:54 PM |
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We need functional and fully trustable non-full clients or else we die.
We do. its called Electrum.
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July 06, 2015, 04:08:13 PM |
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We need functional and fully trustable non-full clients or else we die.
We do. its called Electrum. Huh, did you were here a couple days ago? All SPV wallets suffered from a high risk of non valid transactions due the blockchain split, and guess what, Electrum is a SPV wallet. Basically any wallet that wasn't an updated core wallet was under risk.
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jonald_fyookball
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July 06, 2015, 04:11:07 PM |
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We need functional and fully trustable non-full clients or else we die.
We do. its called Electrum. Huh, did you were here a couple days ago? All SPV wallets suffered from a high risk of non valid transactions due the blockchain split, and guess what, Electrum is a SPV wallet. Basically any wallet that wasn't an updated core wallet was under risk. You: We need non-full clients. Me: There are some. You: But they aren't full clients.
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July 06, 2015, 06:25:29 PM |
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We need functional and fully trustable non-full clients or else we die.
We do. its called Electrum. Huh, did you were here a couple days ago? All SPV wallets suffered from a high risk of non valid transactions due the blockchain split, and guess what, Electrum is a SPV wallet. Basically any wallet that wasn't an updated core wallet was under risk. You: We need non-full clients. Me: There are some. You: But they aren't full clients. SPV wallets can't be fully trusted as seen 2 days ago.
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July 06, 2015, 06:42:45 PM |
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We need functional and fully trustable non-full clients or else we die.
We do. its called Electrum. Huh, did you were here a couple days ago? All SPV wallets suffered from a high risk of non valid transactions due the blockchain split, and guess what, Electrum is a SPV wallet. Basically any wallet that wasn't an updated core wallet was under risk. You: We need non-full clients. Me: There are some. You: But they aren't full clients. SPV wallets can't be fully trusted as seen 2 days ago. Nothing can ever be "fully trusted" except your own node if you want to take that thinking to its logical conclusion. However, for most of the time and especially smaller payments, SPV works great.
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