📅 Original date posted:2014-05-20 📝 Original message:Has ...

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📅 Original date posted:2014-05-20
📝 Original message:Has there ever been serious discussion on extending the protocol to
support UDP transport? That would allow for NAT traversal and for many
more people to run effective nodes. I'm also curious if it could be
made improve block propagation time.

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Gmail <will.yager at gmail.com> wrote:
> Unlikely. I doubt any significant portion of miners in china will continue to mine on a china-specific chain, since it will certainly be outmined by non-Chinese miners, and will be orphaned eventually.
>
> More likely is that mining interests in china will make special arrangements to circumvent the GFwOC.
>
> Users who can't access the worldwide blockchain will notice horrendously slow confirmation times and other side effects.
>
>> On May 20, 2014, at 10:37, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org>
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>> Could a blockchain fork due to network split happen?
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