> Darn good question. If the protection fails, would it be better for it > to 'fail hard', leaving people complaining "bitcoin won't stay > connected!" > > Or fail soft, so you at least have a couple of connections. > > I think fail hard is better-- we'll immediately know about the > problem, and can fix it. Fail soft makes me nervous because I think > that would make it more likely a bug splits the network (and, > therefore, the blockchain).
My own preference would be to fail hard with detection of the problem and notification of the user if there's a GUI connected and/or running. - Joel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
