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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @softsimon 21 Oct 2022 \ parent \ on: I'm Peter Todd, cryptochronomancer/web-π dev, AMA bitcoin
Is the consensus "chain with most work" or "longest chain with most work", if they are not mutually exclusive.
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32 sats \ 0 replies \ @petertodd OP 21 Oct 2022
The former.
Notably, this means that in certain hypothetical circumstances a node can reorg to a shorter chain, with more total work.
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