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Re:Wall Street rethinks blockchain projects as euphoria meet... by jcoffland on Thursday March 29, 2018 @12:25PM (#16708317)
That's the beauty of it. It does not matter what Blockstream says. The longest chain is Bitcoin.
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Re:Wall Street rethinks blockchain projects as euphoria meet... by spookthesunset on Thursday March 29, 2018 @02:03PM (#16709386)
> The longest chain is Bitcoin.

Useless pedantry that doesn't even map into real world use. The real world has shown your definition is incorrect.

Ethereum forked. Which ethereum fork is the "correct" one? Bitcoin forked. Which one is the correct one? Depends on who you ask...

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Re:Wall Street rethinks blockchain projects as euphoria meet... by makomk on Thursday March 29, 2018 @06:08PM (#16711526)
A sufficiently large miner could, right now, create a block which created a million bitcoins from nowhere and gave those to them and it would - for a while at least - be the longest chain. No other clients would accept it, of course, but by your definition the chain where someone just made themselves a billionaire would be Bitcoin.
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