![]() The block index database will now hold headers for which no block is stored on disk, which earlier versions won’t support.” Reindexing using earlier versions will also not work anymore as a result of this. “Blocks will be stored on disk out of order (in the order they are received, really), which makes it incompatible with some tools or other programs. In 2015 - Bitcoin Core 10 was released, the “improved” version with a completely revamped code base promoting new features called “headers-first synchronization and parallel block download” During an opportunistic time-period - some heavily funded developers used this chaos & unrest to further their own political motives to become the dominant force among the core team Bribes, bullying or other marketing tactics eventually forced the Bitcoin community to adopt whatever “solutions” this rogue sub-development group proposed… Anything that appeared to solve the issues of the past - they also recently did this marketing campaign with Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash developers to create the BSV fork. Satoshi - We have a Problem!īitcoin Core developers were out of quick-fix options, and the sync issue never went away. If you have checked the network connections and added nodes if needed, but your wallet still won’t sync, then you may need to delete the blockchain along with a few other files and start over. Unfortunately this “unique identifier” was not the fix-all solution required - it was only a small piece of a few simple flaws that was further compounded by improper handling of orphan blocks in the ProcessBlock function. Gox now has a workaround that will use a unique identifier created by Blockchain to show whether transactions have been modified or not.” “The malformed records created discrepancies in the effected exchange’s accounting systems that caused them to fall out of sync with the network.” Gox plans to resume Bitcoin transfers after fixing ‘phantom’ weakness” This is when I began researching the resource consumption along with data transmissions during full network synchronizations and even while bootstrapping - unexpectedly the peers appeared to be fighting each other on the network while downloading orphan blocks, I also speculated this was later used as an attack vector to further enhance the Sybil (double-spend & 51%) vulnerabilities - when nodes are knocked offline or stuck on undesired block heights. ![]() Bootstrapping was a quick fix, but was simply a centralized solution to a decentralized problem. ![]() ![]() Low RAM, CPU or slow internet was often viewed as the culprit for such a painstaking Bitcoin experience. “The biggest pain point of using Bitcoin-Qt (Bitcoin Core) prior to v 0.10 as your wallet is it takes forever to sync to get the complete block chain.” It does have its own risks - the transaction records could be altered by the ‘provider’ and accepted by the majority of the network Essentially a double-spend attack, but without the mining investment required with a 51% attack. ![]()
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