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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Small Block
by
odolvlobo
on 25/04/2015, 21:03:19 UTC
What is an orphaned block? Is that one where there are several fringes and that block ends up on a fringe that gets left because another was solved first?

Two miners might find a block at the same time, and only one will eventually be on the longest chain. The other will be forgotten. The name "orphan" is a bit of a misnomer, because an orphan block has a parent but it has no child (or perhaps no grandchild).