On Sunday, November 15, 2015 1:02:33 AM Peter R via bitcoin-dev wrote: > A group of us have been exploring this “meta-cognition” idea with Bitcoin > Unlimited. For example, Bitcoin Unlimited can be (optionally) made to > automatically fork to the longest chain if it “gets stuck” and can neither > prove that a block is valid nor that the block is invalid.
This situation isn't something that can be ignored and simply moved past. If you can't determine the validity of a block, you also cannot process its results correctly. Taking for example the BDB/LevelDB issue, the result was that BDB failed to accept further changes to the UTXO set. Unless the UTXO set could be updated correctly, there is no way to even attempt to validate the next block or any new transactions. Luke _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
