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Because this would enable a 51% attack. If you could attack pool software for 51% of hashrate, you would be able to validate a fraudulent transaction and make m
by sudosysgen 5y ago
Because this would enable a 51% attack. If you could attack pool software for 51% of hashrate, you would be able to validate a fraudulent transaction and make millions of dollars out of it.
- tromp 5y agoOne of Bitcoin's essential properties is that the miners are not trusted to validate correctly. If a miner mines an invalid transaction, then the network will simply reject their block.
- drekk 5y ago... unless you impact 51% of the hash rate and effectively become "the network" for the purposes of reaching consensus