{
"subject": "Re: Proof-of-work difficulty increasing",
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"body": "<div class=\"post\"><div class=\"quoteheader\"><a href=\"https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=43.msg372#msg372\">Quote from: Sabunir on February 16, 2010, 08:51:51 AM</a></div><div class=\"quote\">. Perhaps it has to do with my connection's very high latency (2000ms or more on average) <br/></div>2 seconds of latency in both directions should reduce your generation success by less than 1%.<br/><br/><div class=\"quoteheader\"><a href=\"https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=43.msg372#msg372\">Quote from: Sabunir on February 16, 2010, 08:51:51 AM</a></div><div class=\"quote\">and/or my high packet loss (sometimes up to 10% loss)?<br/></div>Probably OK, but I'm not sure. The protocol is designed to resync to the next message, and messages get re-requested from all the other nodes you're connected to until received. If you miss a block, it'll also keep requesting it every time another blocks comes in and it sees there's a gap. Before the original release I did a test dropping 1 out of 4 random messages under heavy load until I could run it overnight without any nodes getting stuck.</div>"
},
"source": {
"name": "Bitcoin Forum",
"url": "https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=43.msg388#msg388"
},
"date": "2010-02-17T17:58:03Z"
}