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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Bitcoin

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You only have a single verified email address. We recommend verifying at least one more email address to ensure you can recover your account if you lose access to your primary email. In the spirit of Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers, here is a list of mistaken perspectives on Bitcoin. Block height will only increase. Not the chain with the highest number of blocks is considered as the majority chain (honest chain), but the chain with the most cumulated chainwork. As the work needed to find a valid block proof is dependent on the block target (see also difficulty), it is possible that a chain with a higher number of blocks than the majority chain exists, if the difficulty was lower in this chain. If a client for some reason first only sees the minority chain (with higher block count) and then gets presented the majority chain (with a higher chainwork) it will drop the minority chain in favor of the majority chain. In this case the valid block height (as seen by this no

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