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#173 – Nic Carter: Bitcoin Core Values, Layered Scaling, and Blocksize Debates

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The Ultimate Trust Model for Bitcoin Mining

Full node contains all the transactions ever transacted on the Bitcoin blockchain. It's doable on a regular consumer laptop and that is going to be really key later on in the discussion. So you don't really have to trust too many people or entities. You can validate the correctness of that all the rules have been followed, that all the bitcoins that were created were done so in an valid way.

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