Friday, 16 November 2018

Checkpoints were actually added by Satoshi

Satoshi added checkpoints to the blockchain way back when... so for those that claim to want to take BCH back to ‘Satoshi’s Vision’, well it is:

http://archive.is/dEZ35

Added a simple security safeguard that locks-in the block chain up to this point.

The security safeguard makes it so even if someone does have more than 50% of the network’s CPU power, they can’t try to go back and redo the block chain before yesterday. (if you have this update)

I’ll probably put a checkpoint in each version from now on. Once the software has settled what the widely accepted block chain is, there’s no point in leaving open the unwanted non-zero possibility of revision months later.

It wasn’t until Bitcoin Core came along and removed checkpoints, that it disappeared... 🤔

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source https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/9xiw03/checkpoints_were_actually_added_by_satoshi/

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