Author: Eric Voskuil 2017-04-11 09:41:34
Published on: 2017-04-11T09:41:34+00:00
The email conversation discusses splitting transactions on storage, and how switching tips can be considered a "reorg". The reverse navigation of UTXO information is essential and branch-relative. The blockchain is only eventually consistent across nodes, and consistency is reached because people use the same rules. It is not optimal to validate concurrently even if selection of a weaker block is advantageous. The validation flags with each transaction are stored in libbitcoin. The discussion also touches on the need for height-based compliance as meta data of validation and how it would be history-based rather than height-based if activation for each branch were tracked.
Updated on: 2023-06-11T23:55:36.493915+00:00