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This is a guest post by Arman The Parman.
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What happens if two miners find a block at the same time?

This actually happens every now and then, and it always sorts itself out as follows:

Every node will receive either one of the new nearly-simultaneous blocks first and will accept that one and reject the one arriving just moments later. This results in a split of the network, but it’s temporary.

To illustrate, let’s [...]
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