Isn’t block reorganization the most common phenomenon in the Bitcoin blockchain?

[greysonz]

Hi everyone, I saw this post on X and was surprised that people are talking about it. Isn’t block reorganization the most common phenomenon in the Bitcoin blockchain? Or is it not a frequent event?

Bitcoin experienced a small 1 block reorg this morning. This is common: the third time in four weeks (962,722 on Aug. 16, 963,853 on Aug. 24). Here, Spiderpool had its chain obviated by Antpool.
Our node never saw the Antpool block until it confirmed and the chain extended on top of it.

source: https://x.com/glxyresearch/status/2098450862222045506

[Upgrade00]

Hi everyone, I saw this post on X and was surprised that people are talking about it. Isn’t block reorganization the most common phenomenon in the Bitcoin blockchain? Or is it not a frequent event?

No, it is not.
With almost a million blocks mined we have had a little over 3000 stale blocks which required reorganization. That's about 3.5% in total but when you consider just recent blocks the percentage drops significantly.

[promise444c5]

It’s not common.. there are time when the network can experience such like 4+ temporary forks in a month[just like this case ] and there are also sometimes when a month could go by without any temp. forks..

Btw, a temporary fork doesn’t mean every node experience chain reorg.. a node can go months without experiencing any chain re-org.

[EL MOHA]

Hi everyone, I saw this post on X and was surprised that people are talking about it. Isn’t block reorganization the most common phenomenon in the Bitcoin blockchain? Or is it not a frequent event?

In the early days of bitcoin that’s before 2017 chain reorg were frequent event and this was actually due to bugs it was even during this eras that the largest chain reorge even happen but of recent they are not so common not of recent or should I say month of August were they occurred multiple times. This I think is why it was making news around social media you know how anything associated with bitcoin most especially its Deficiencies is usually amplified.

For the record bitcoin stale block datasets to see that it’s not a common thing if it’s measured in ratio of total blocks already mined