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What makes the bitcoin network decentralized? is it the nodes or the miners or both?
I wonder what makes the bitcoin network decentralized?
Do nodes participate in making the network decentralized? or is it just the miners and all about the hash power to take over the network aka 51%&...
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What stops an attacker from crippling the Bitcoin network?
An individual (or government) who wants to bring down the Bitcoin network could conceivably broadcast a ton of junk/illegitimate transactions to the network thereby consuming the bandwidth and ...
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Why can't an ISP ban access to a blockchain network? [duplicate]
I read that blockchain sits on top of the internet and is decentralised. We still have to access the blockchain network via an ISP. Without ISP, we can't access the internet so why can't an ISP block ...
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Where to find the data to compare the decentralisation of mining for different cryptos?
I'd like to compare the centralisation of BTC's mining / nodes / pools for BTC and other alts. Where can data be found on this?
Thank you!
David
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Bitcoin node Decentralization
Is the number of independently owned and operated full Bitcoin nodes more important than the total number of full Bitcoin nodes with regards to Decentralization?
Assuming the answer to the above ...
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