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Definitions of technical terms, jargon, abbreviations, acronyms, and phrases that are essential to the Bitcoin community.

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What are checkpoints?

Bitcoin consensus algo is probabilistic (rather than deterministic) so in theory there is always the possibility of reversibility. The checkpoint gets around that by setting how far back it with even …
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