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If you fork, don’t you have the same length (at least at the moment of fork), by definition?
by dgellow 5y ago
If you fork, don’t you have the same length (at least at the moment of fork), by definition?
- kayamon 5y agoYou fork a blockchain by linking new blocks on the end (with bitcoin.pdf forming an implicit start node they all kicked off from). Whichever of the forks persuades enough people to continue mining on it becomes the real blockchain and the people will slowly stop working on the other forks. The shorter blockchain will never find enough people to mine it when there's a larger more lucrative blockchain to mine.
- FabHK 5y agoExcept that it has happened multiple times.