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Been working on this with Adrian for the last 3.5 months. Happy to answer any questions if I can.

• skorgu 12y ago
  Why Ruby? (Nothing against it, just curious)
  • adrianmacneil 12y ago
    We're mostly a ruby shop here - so using what we know is more efficient and allows more engineers to contribute (both internally, and from an open source perspective).
• zmanian 12y ago
  It is great to have more examples of building a indexed fast query representations of the the current ledger state. What did you guys go with as a policy for handling or avoiding orphan blocks...
  • lechuga 12y ago
    Currently we're saving every block we see. And if we find an orphan's parent which is on the main chain we try to connect them both. We aren't doing anything to explicitly avoid them. If you're referring to side chain blocks (which some people refer to as orphan blocks) we'll extend them to be the main chain should they win or leave them forever marked as side chain blocks. We aren't doing anything to explicitly avoid these either.