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I own that $4.5bn of digi-dosh so rewrite your blockchain and give it to me, Craig Wright tells Bitcoin SV devs

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Who would run such a patched node? Thankfully the whole point of a distributed consensus-based blockchain makes such an attack impossible. Any block with a transaction moving those coins without a valid signature using their private key will be rejected as invalid by 99.9999% of the other nodes, and so it goes.

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