On Tuesday 23 July 2013 10:56:02 Pieter Wuille wrote: > The block chain is not involved at all to verify transactions, it's > just a historical > record to serve to other nodes, and to do wallet rescans with.
It must be involved to some extent. Certainly during a temporary fork, there are two branches growing, and you have to be able, when verifying a new transaction, to say which branch it's one... which branch of the blockchain. Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins andypark...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
