JuAnHu on Nostr: What if a 51% pool would censor all blocks that were not mined by that pool? It would ...
What if a 51% pool would censor all blocks that were not mined by that pool? It would boost the profitability of that pool tremendously and create strong incentives to join that pool.
Combine that with legislation and pressure on the exchanges and big economic nodes to play along...
Voila, you have a centralized state-controlled network.
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