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On Tuesday 23 July 2013 10:56:02 Pieter Wuille wrote:

> The block chain is not involved at all to verify transactions, it's
> just a historical
> record to serve to other nodes, and to do wallet rescans with.

It must be involved to some extent.  Certainly during a temporary fork, there 
are two branches growing, and you have to be able, when verifying a new 
transaction, to say which branch it's one... which branch of the blockchain.


Andy
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