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This might be a dumb question, but I'd really appreciate it if someone with a better technical understanding of Bitcoin could shed some light on this.If hypothetically certain regions of the world were to be isolated from each other for an extended period, for example a breakdown of international network connections between the Americas and Asia, and a certain subset of Bitcoin nodes were reachable within one half of the world for argument sake, while another set in the other half of the world... Could it happen that transactions in the west could keep getting enough confirmations from western nodes to be validated and stored on the chain, while transactions in the east are getting enough confirmations from the eastern nodes, and as a result of that isolation both sides have no awareness of the drift happening on the other side? Could the network end up in such a state of disparity? And once international connectivity is restored, could Bitcoin consolidate that, considering that now the hashes stored on the chain would be out of sequence?
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