On Sun, Jul 31, 2022 at 1:47 PM Jason Resch <jasonre...@gmail.com> wrote:
*> In theory all existing miners but one could power down and it bitcoin > would keep on going fine.* If one miner was in charge of verifying the Blockchain for all bitcoin transactions, or even just 51% of them, he could double spend bitcoins whenever he wanted to. And that would be the end of bitcoin. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> eob -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2g264jBCkVcESTcNPddeZ4a9HPrV0pNivsN1V7Ydr8bQ%40mail.gmail.com.