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Re: Transfer bitcoins without internet
by
baro77
on 30/12/2022, 11:08:10 UTC
But in practice, amount of stale/orphan block is very low. Based on BitMex monitoring tool[1], there are only 46 detected stale block since 20-08-2020[2].

[1] https://forkmonitor.info/notifications
[2] https://forkmonitor.info/feeds/stale_candidates/btc.rss

well, forking and subsequent reorgs are local events, so we cannot be sure forkmonitor offers a statistical reliable view from global/overall perspective. But agreeing it does (I'm sure actual tuning cause few forks/reorgs because of the 10sec/10min ratio), my point is that long propagation times due to offline nodes, only sporadically peering with the BTC network, would increase the risk.
Disconnected nodes/client cannot be sure to share an updated status of the ledger, and if they are enough to have miners between them, well.. enjoy the mess Smiley  ...the matter is that BTC has a global consensus model, but the way it works depends on quite strictly bounded propagation times (which cannot be taken for granted with a significant number of offline nodes)