5 sats \ 0 replies \ @cointastical 24 Jun 2022 \ on: What happens if an entity operates a majority of Bitcoin nodes? bitcoin
Miners have one job and one job only -- to determine the ordering of transactions.
If the ordering they provide is valid per the protocol my node follows, then my node determines that ordering to be the truth.
Nobody can change the protocol that my node follows, except for me (and that could only happen by me changing software that my node runs).