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Longest Chain should be the one with the highest cumulative difficulty #89

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alexdovzhanyn opened this issue Jan 30, 2019 · 0 comments
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Longest Chain should be the one with the highest cumulative difficulty #89

alexdovzhanyn opened this issue Jan 30, 2019 · 0 comments
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We're currently tracking the longest (canonical) chain as the chain with the most blocks. This is not necessarily equal to most computational complexity -- we should instead use the chain with highest cumulative difficulty as the canonical chain
@alexdovzhanyn alexdovzhanyn added Enhancement New feature or request Help Wanted Extra attention is needed labels Jan 30, 2019
@alexdovzhanyn alexdovzhanyn added the Difficulty: Intermediate This issue can be worked on by someone with a moderate amount of experience with the codebase label Aug 19, 2019
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