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Noob question: Why is there not a limit of the number of blocks in a chain revision?
I have a noob idea and I want to understand where I'm going wrong :)
Say nodes agreed on a block revision limit, say, 6. This would mean that if they see an incoming chain that is longer than the ...
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51% attack, miners, nodes or both
If 51% of the hashrate was controlled by bad actors mining invalid blocks, this would become the longest chain. Where do nodes come into the 51% attack? The canonical chain is the longest chain. Is ...
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