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"Whew, wondered where we'd put those 200,000 BTC!"

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Subject: "Whew, wondered where we'd put those 200,000 BTC!"
From: [email protected] (grarpamp)
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 15:25:30 -0400
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> So how do they do that? If there's power failure on a specific box...

There is transactional integrity where you're good until the failure,
then you halt and fix/failover/etc. It's relatively cheap and popular.

> I can imagine mitigating this by redundantly processing everything

Then there are things called non-stop-computing where the whole
system is transactioned. Some of that happens in systems like these.
How close these things get to being bulletproof I've not looked into.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_z
Also Sun, HP, Fujitsu and the like.
Look into what NASDAQ runs...

References:
- "Whew, wondered where we'd put those 200,000 BTC!"
  - From: [email protected] (Kelly John Rose)
- "Whew, wondered where we'd put those 200,000 BTC!"
  - From: [email protected] (Peter Gutmann)
- "Whew, wondered where we'd put those 200,000 BTC!"
  - From: [email protected] (Lodewijk andré de la porte)

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