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In the first step, he says roughly "assume half of the nodes change protocol". I named by dog Bitcoin too but he doesn't have the same UTXO state as the main ch
by jabgrabdthrow 9y ago
In the first step, he says roughly "assume half of the nodes change protocol". I named by dog Bitcoin too but he doesn't have the same UTXO state as the main chain.
- hudon 9y agoIf Alice changed the ruleset so drastically, I don’t think she could find any Bob that would be willing to accept this thing as Bitcoin. But maybe the probability is not 0. If Alice only changed 1 little rule and made it conflicting with the ruleset used by the rest of the network, it’s easy to imagine consensus failure and being able to find 1 Bob that gets tricked into receiving a double-spent Bitcoin. In fact, such a system failure has happened already in 2013, when for 24 hours no one knew which ledger was the real bitcoin: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-network-shaken-by-blockchain-fork-1363144448/ https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-network-shaken-...