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Originally Posted by ScottJ
If the AmTote infrastructure continued to operate (and that is a very big "if"), a communication outage (even the outage of a redundant line) should never have compromised the underlying pool data already collected. The bets that were already in the pools at the point of the outage should stand. The first rule in real-time communications - always save the known valid state. Therefore, it must be the case that the pool states could not be validated (meaning they were corrupted) immediately upon the communications failure. How is that possible?
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I'm curious about this too. For places that gave a refund is it because their bets weren't actually in the pool before things fell apart?
