BitShares 2.0 - Why are transactions pending for 25 plus blocks?

[xeroc]

yup .. checkpoint fits perfectly here!

[Tuck Fheman]

You can't.  It's a worst case scenario thing.  If someone smashed the internet and thus separated the witnesses so they couldn't communicate, the last irreversible block would be the safe place to resume when global communication was restored.

So, it's a hardcoded checkpoint?

[puppies]

Yup ... 7 blocks pending means they will be IRREVERSIBLE after 7 blocks

You can reverse transactions? If so, why only some?

Very good way of explaining it.

You can't.  It's a worst case scenario thing.  If someone smashed the internet and thus separated the witnesses so they couldn't communicate, the last irreversible block would be the safe place to resume when global communication was restored.

[xeroc]

it compares to the 6 blocks waiting time of bitcoin ... in contrast to bitcoin .. after the tx confirmed by 2/3 of all witnesse .. the transaction is ABSOLUTELY irreversible .. while bitcoin only has like a 99.9999% .. basically a cosmetic difference

anyway .. a single confirmation in bts could be considered more "certain" than a single confirmation in btc

[Troglodactyl]

Yup ... 7 blocks pending means they will be IRREVERSIBLE after 7 blocks

You can reverse transactions? If so, why only some?

You can't.  It's a worst case scenario thing.  If someone smashed the internet and thus separated the witnesses so they couldn't communicate, the last irreversible block would be the safe place to resume when global communication was restored.

[Tuck Fheman]

Yup ... 7 blocks pending means they will be IRREVERSIBLE after 7 blocks

You can reverse transactions? If so, why only some?

[xeroc]

Yup ... 7 blocks pending means they will be IRREVERSIBLE after 7 blocks

[Tuck Fheman]

Is this normal or expected?