Quote from: llama on July 17, 2010, 21:56:25
However, it’s important that you don’t lock all the way up the very latest block. Otherwise, the attacker could generate a fake block (or a few) right before you happen to lock it, and then his attack would be far easier than it would have been without the block lock.

I went about 200 blocks back.  The block chain was a clean straight line without branches, and there was only one known version of the locked block.

Quote from: llama on July 17, 2010, 21:56:25
Also, I’m assuming that the block lock means that the blocks will also come prepackaged with the client. Is this so?

Sorry, not yet, but I do want to make the initial block download faster.

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