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Re:Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of Black Swan, on Bitcoin by dmm on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @01:03PM (#16215678)
Non-mining nodes still enforce the consensus rules. Miners can't just decide to increase the block size or change the total # of bitcoin to 42 million.
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Re:Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of Black Swan, on Bitcoin by 6nf on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @06:31PM (#16218924)
Non-mining nodes do not have the ability to change the block chain and therefore they do not affect the rest of the network.
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Re:Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of Black Swan, on Bitcoin by lrns_ on Thursday January 25, 2018 @08:38AM (#16230645)
Read up on UASF http://www.uasf.co/
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Re:Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of Black Swan, on Bitcoin by 6nf on Thursday January 25, 2018 @04:44PM (#16234975)
Read up on the Bitcoin whitepaper
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