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With 51% a miner could orphan everyone elses mined blocks could they not? Essentially giving them 100% of the rewards. Thats pretty huge.

• servowire 12y ago
  All the miners would leave that pool if they did that. I would.
  • sp332 12y ago
    Really? If the pool only has 51% of the mining power but gets 100% of the block rewards, pool members would get coins at double the normal rate. I don't see a lot of people leaving in that event.
    • leni536 12y ago
      And what would happen to the value of bitcoin?