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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: I will create a forked bitcoin chain
by
Stephen Gornick
on 24/04/2013, 04:06:30 UTC
But they do relay new block announcements. Even if they are off the current chain. Right?

Nope, for two reasons.  Firstly, only if the block is of a greater height than any block the client already knows about will the client then relay it.   Secondly, the amount of coin generated (200 BTC) would fail the block validation logic (as it exceeds 25 BTC at these block numbers), so the Bitcoin-Qt/bitcoind client would reject the block and, of course, not relay it.