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> threats to very powerful people Same people who also control the hash rate? :)

• jcbrand 5y ago
  Hashing power is not the only line of defence. The (non-mining) nodes have the ability to reject blocks that they don't consider legitimate. That's why it's important to the Bitcoin community that the average person can run a full node and that as many people as possible also do so.
  • heavenlyblue 5y ago
    There is not mechanism in Bitcoin for the non-mining nodes to somehow agree in the case of a 51% attack though so I am not sure what you are trying to prove here
  • typon 5y ago
    The average person who just has a Coinbase account through their iPhone.