<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1xljjfnrwkp7tg7lyc2624rd2pt5cht3tna00wqad290wxkjw0t7qvkfzv5</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1xljjfnrwkp7tg7lyc2624rd2pt5cht3tna00wqad290wxkjw0t7qvkfzv5</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2014-05-20&#xA;📝 Original message:Has there ever been serious discussion on extending the protocol to&#xA;support UDP transport? That would allow for NAT traversal and for many&#xA;more people to run effective nodes. I&#39;m also curious if it could be&#xA;made improve block propagation time.&#xA;&#xA;On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Gmail &lt;will.yager at gmail.com&gt; wrote:&#xA;&gt; 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.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; More likely is that mining interests in china will make special arrangements to circumvent the GFwOC.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; Users who can&#39;t access the worldwide blockchain will notice horrendously slow confirmation times and other side effects.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt; On May 20, 2014, at 10:37, Eugen Leitl &lt;eugen at leitl.org&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt; Could a blockchain fork due to network split happen?&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;&gt; &#34;Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE&#xA;&gt; Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos.&#xA;&gt; Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available&#xA;&gt; Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free.&#34;&#xA;&gt; http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs&#xA;&gt; _______________________________________________&#xA;&gt; Bitcoin-development mailing list&#xA;&gt; Bitcoin-development at lists.sourceforge.net&#xA;&gt; https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;-- &#xA;Andy Alness&#xA;Software Engineer&#xA;Coinbase&#xA;San Francisco, CA</html></oembed>