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One 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 s
by tromp 5y ago
One 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