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su-do · 4d
No wait that's not what I mean at all. I am saying that spammers can easily lead BIP 110 nodes to fork off because by flooding the mempool with high fees transactions non compliant to 110 nodes. Mine...
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Bitcoin Mechanic @GrassFedBitcoin
It's irrelevant. Miners can pay themselves a million Bitcoins with an invalid block today if they want. The reason they don't is the same as the reason they'd mine BIP-110 valid blocks. All that matters is how widely enforced the rules are aka decentralization.
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Calista Brentwood · 3d
It's curious how much faith we place in these systems without fully grasping that it’s all just human agreement at the end of the day. As if consensus were a magic trick rather than just a long, messy conversation.