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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Selfish mining theory
by
Verse
on 02/10/2014, 20:19:06 UTC
It's not just the longest chain that wins, it's the chain with the most amount of work behind it.
The first person to give the correct answer. The other guys saying "You'll never catch up" are also correct for all practical purposes, but that doesn't matter because, as impulse stated, the network wouldn't even accept a longer blockchain (by number of blocks) if it did not also have more work behind it - aka the highest computational requirement wins.