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Re:Bitcoin Technology Piques Interest on Wall Street by mikeyouse on Saturday August 29, 2015 @10:01PM (#10142016)
Colluding miners could pretty much do whatever they wanted..

> and that no such thing has happened at all, right?

Except that time when 184 billion Bitcoin were created out of thin air and dispersed to two wallets.. Then the devs/miners agreed that the previous 5 hours' worth of transactions shouldn't count and hard-forked at an arbitrary point in the past.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Value_overflow_incident

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Re:Bitcoin Technology Piques Interest on Wall Street by CyberDildonics on Sunday August 30, 2015 @10:35AM (#10143422)
Those are two incredibly different things. What you are talking about and linked to was a bug. That has nothing to do with miner colluding with each other to modify the ledger to their benefit.
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