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Re: Bitcoin Consensus. Posibility that a transaction will never be validated?
by
Captain-Cryptory
on 03/06/2020, 11:03:57 UTC
Firstly let me tell you (very abstractly), how I understood the consenous. If I am wrong, please correct me.

Out there are many miners and each one receive a lot of different transactions, that have to be validated. The one who is faster put all his by others verified transactions into a block.

What if for example my transaction lands by a miner, whose computing power very low is and he will be never able to put my transaction into a block?

Thanks abd best regards

Consensus in bitcoin network is not about validation of transactions. It is all about who is the winner among chains that could be produced in the course of mining. Satoshi said "Nodes   always   consider   the   longest   chain   to   be   the   correct   one   and   will   keep   working   on extending it" (https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf) - and that defines consensus among  all honest nodes.