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Re:Bitcoin is fiat money, too by ballenf on Friday September 22, 2017 @11:10PM (#15317856)
Wouldn't you be creating your own fork? A fork of one where peers would then reject every message from you?

No man is an island, unless he wants to completely devalue his bitcoin.

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Re:Bitcoin is fiat money, too by polyomino on Saturday September 23, 2017 @12:46AM (#15318158)
They wouldn’t reject messages from you so long as they are valid on their nodes.
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Re:Bitcoin is fiat money, too by ryan_j_naughton on Saturday September 23, 2017 @02:37AM (#15318479)
Right and thus consensus exists. And that consensus consolidates to a single set of rules (and any major deviations result in forks).
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