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Re:Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack by 3np on Saturday March 13, 2021 @01:48AM (#26444586)
That bodyguard narrative is yours and I think it makes little sense. Hash power is required to form consensus. If anything, non-mining full nodes run by users would be the closest to “body guards”.

Miners would be the ones who settle and publish the lineup.

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Re:Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack by shawnz on Saturday March 13, 2021 @08:02AM (#26446269)
The point of the analogy is that they are being paid to provide a service, and if they have a disagreement about it, then their only choice is to forefit their profits and let someone else come in to extract them instead.
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