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Re:Tulip mania: the classic story of a Dutch financial bubbl... by pbhjpbhj on Saturday February 17, 2018 @08:39AM (#16400603)
Doubt you need miners in order to process transactions, how would you do it without any miners?
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Re:Tulip mania: the classic story of a Dutch financial bubbl... by tlrobinson on Saturday February 17, 2018 @09:19PM (#16404054)
If the miners are financially motivated and rational they wouldn’t refuse to mine the most valuable fork. They have a large investment in hardware and would lose a lot of money.

If for some reason they did refuse, or worse, attacked the network (with double spends or censorsing transactions) then the users could emergency fork to change the proof of work and attract new miners.

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Re:Tulip mania: the classic story of a Dutch financial bubbl... by pbhjpbhj on Saturday February 17, 2018 @12:27PM (#16401645)
* Don't

Gah, that's a pretty bad typo.

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