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Because that's not how bitcoin even works?? Users transmit transactions to the network, where miners put them into blocks, generate hashes, and add them to the
by bduerst 11y ago
Because that's not how bitcoin even works??
Users transmit transactions to the network, where miners put them into blocks, generate hashes, and add them to the chain. Nodes always trust the longest chains as being correct. Miners control the blocks, not users.
This isn't some Starbucks or Target where a centralized policy maker is deciding what to do based on "user demand", assuming users were even able to collude.
- wyager 11y agoI think you may have an oversimplified mental model of Bitcoin. Consider this; if a miner were to change their code to mine 100 Bitcoin per block instead of 25, would people trust them just because they represent the longest chain? Obviously not. A node will accept a block if it's in the longest chain AND it follows the node's ruleset.