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How are updates propagated to all different copies of the blockchain?
by eecks 10y ago
How are updates propagated to all different copies of the blockchain?
- myroon5 10y agoReddit thread on this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2wjgpd/can_someone_please_explain_to_me_how_bitcoin_gets/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2wjgpd/can_someone...
- Taek 10y agoAnother commenter linked to a discussion about updating the Bitcoin software, but are you talking about updates to the Bitcoin blockchain? An 'update' would be a new block or transaction. The Bitcoin network shares new blocks and transaction over a flood network where every node is peered with 8+ other nodes, and will tell all of them when it sees a new block or transaction.