{
"subject": "Checking the block chain on load",
"content": {
"format": "html",
"body": "<div class=\"post\">SVN rev 139 does a basic check of the block chain after loading.<br/><br/>With this we wouldn't have needed to delete blk*.dat, it would have automatically done a reorg back to the fork. There wasn't time to do a careful implementation of this at the time.<br/><br/>It might take longer than we want, since it has to load all the blocks. If it's too slow, we could have it only go back to a certain block number.</div>"
},
"source": {
"name": "Bitcoin Forum",
"url": "https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=841.msg9813#msg9813"
},
"date": "2010-08-16T20:07:46Z"
}