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Discusses the rules by which one chain-tip gets chosen over another, including questions about heaviest/longest chains. Closely related to [chainwork], [chain-reorganization] and [blockchain-fork].

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What is chainwork?

Pieter's answer is good, the chainwork value is the expected work amount in the chain, expressed as a 32 bytes integer, for the double SHA-256 hashes calculation work. The chainwork is used to identif …
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