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Question
For 51% attack they only need to convince 3 of the 5 biggest mining pools to join up.
Nodes don't compute, miners do.
The longest blockchain is the valid one, and nodes don't add blocks to the chain.
How would those of us running nodes stop this?
Could we?
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2025-08-15 21:31:32 UTCEvent JSON
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