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Re: Another sending address & signing messages related question
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didjaydisteele
on 22/11/2013, 21:36:57 UTC
Bitcoin miners have the entire record of all transactions, so when they receive a new transaction they check that the inputs to the new transaction are valid outputs of previous transactions and that the inputs have not been spent already. Miners will ignore transactions that don't meet the requirements.

If there was a bad miner that decided to include a bad transaction in a block, then the other miners would detect the invalid transaction in the block and ignore the block.