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Main => General Discussion => Topic started by: gamey on January 20, 2015, 04:52:36 am

Title: How do invalid blocks work?
Post by: gamey on January 20, 2015, 04:52:36 am

So if a delegate signs a block that is not valid how is that handled by the rest of the Delegates?  Is the invalid transaction removed and then the valid transactions are just added to a new block.  Then the other Delegates ignore the invalid block?

Title: Re: How do invalid blocks work?
Post by: toast on January 20, 2015, 05:09:17 am

Quote from: gamey on January 20, 2015, 04:52:36 am

So if a delegate signs a block that is not valid how is that handled by the rest of the Delegates?  Is the invalid transaction removed and then the valid transactions are just added to a new block.  Then the other Delegates ignore the invalid block?

that's about right

Title: Re: How do invalid blocks work?
Post by: vikram on January 20, 2015, 07:14:03 pm

Currently, I believe the transactions from the invalid block are not recovered (I think it is on the roadmap: https://github.com/BitShares/bitshares/issues/1155). In practice those transactions will still be floating around the P2P network if the block is really invalid, and another delegate will include them.