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As I understand, it’s complete open source. So what is preventing a couple of miners to team up and change some integer to say year 2100 & recompile and distrib

As I understand, it’s complete open source. So what is preventing a couple of miners to team up and change some integer to say year 2100 & recompile and distribute?

bibabaloo 5y ago
Nothing, except convincing other people to use their fork.
ivalm 5y ago
That would be a fork...
ur-whale 5y ago
The blocks produced by this new software would be rejected by other miners still using the unmodified software, because difficulty(block)<difficulty_enforced_by_bomb_at-that_time. Hence: the very definition of a fork, that is some blocks seen as valid by some faction and seen as invalid by others.