Longest Chain should be the one with the highest cumulative difficulty

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Longest Chain should be the one with the highest cumulative difficulty #89

Open alexdovzhanyn opened 5 years ago

alexdovzhanyn commented 5 years ago

We're currently tracking the longest (canonical) chain as the chain with the most blocks. This is not necessarily equal to most computational complexity -- we should instead use the chain with highest cumulative difficulty as the canonical chain