This may be a relatively simple question to a tech savvy witness, but a complicated question to most steemians.
I don't know the answer to this question either, that's why I use the SteemHelp community to ask and hopefully receive an informed answer. But I have two potential scenarios I believe can happen:
- all blockchain operations attempted during the 3-second window when a block failed to be produced return an error
- same as above, except user interfaces re-attempt the operation after a failed block and the user only notices a delay, not an error, unless there really is an error to report. Same as it happens when a node fails to respond, and another one is tried, right?
An answer to this question will help us better understand the significance of missed blocks for witnesses. All weighted by how often a witness is scheduled to produce blocks, because 1 missed block for a top 20 witness weighs less than 1 missed block for a backup witness, which is scheduled to produce blocks less often.