Quote from: mizerydearia on August 17, 2010, 10:22:34 PM

"Chain Branching" is still without a definition. Is this a valid or recognized term or is it something someone made up?

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* kencausey realizes now the 'cross over' mentioned is in reference to 'chain branching'
the point at which two chain branches coincide
"Forking Point" == "The point at which two chain branches coincide" Huh

103,000 results for "chain branching" (with quotes) at google.com

I think the person who created the page just posted some quick terms without defining them. It's a perfectly valid term, although I would personally change it to Chain Branch. It's not a very complex term, but I'm having a hard time thinking of how to succinctly define it off the top of my head. I don't have time to work on it at the moment, but here is a sentence that I wrote while I was trying to think of how to lead in to defining it. I hadn't gotten to the chain branch part of the definition yet. This definition is somewhat descriptive of the term Proof-of-Work, which is another term that should be added. There are plenty more definitions which haven't been included yet. I'll add some more at some point when I've got some time and if I don't forget.

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~~For each subsequent consectutive zero from the left side of the hash expressed as a binary number, the difficulty of producing a hash doubles.~~

Edit: It just occurred to me that the Bitcoin difficulty increases at much smaller increments than x2. Bitcoin doesn't attempt to only get consecutive zeros, but tries to get the hash below a certain number when the hash is expressed as a number.