Bitcoin faces a rare two-block chainsplit! Find out what this means for the world's leading cryptocurrency and why it is essential to maintaining its security and integrity
However, given the recent increase in stale blocks, the chainsplit was not entirely unexpected. Stale blocks are blocks that were previously considered valid but are no longer part of the longest chain due to a reorganization of the blockchain.
In this specific case, multiple blocks were produced at height 788686. As new blocks are mined and reference one of these blocks as their parent, the heaviest chain survives, and the other blocks become stale. Some explorers will forget the stale blocks, as the timestamp reported on a block is not necessarily accurate due to Bitcoin's Block Timestamp Protection Rules.
Despite the rarity of two-block chainsplits, the cryptocurrency community remains largely unperturbed.
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