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Re:BitPay Will Process Payments on Multiple Blockchains, Sta... by Frogolocalypse on Saturday December 16, 2017 @03:47AM (#15938541)
Nodes don't mine. There are still many nodes using old client node software. Look.

http://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/charts/softwar...

I don't think you really understand the relationship between nodes and consensus.

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Re:BitPay Will Process Payments on Multiple Blockchains, Sta... by MichaelGG on Saturday December 16, 2017 @05:27AM (#15938854)
>nodes don't mine

Hmm that's not how it used to be. You must be talking about something other than Bitcoin.

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