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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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On a low level, how are long chains kept secret and later broadcast during 51% attacks?

I've been reading about the vulnerabilities of PoW crypto, and there's a part of it that I don't understand. Suppose I wanted to stage a 51% attack on Bitcoin (not really feasible, but bear with me). ...
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