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No, bitcoin isn’t about to be taken over by a massive cartel
qz.com / By Ritchie King / January 9, 2014
At 3am ET this morning, 45% of all bitcoin mining was being conducted by members of a single mining pool—Ghash.io. This near-majority stake had bitcoin bugs concerned. Bitcoin works because there is a huge public log of every bitcoin transaction, and that log is written by miners, who keep it honest by checking each other. But if a single group is mostly responsible for writing and checking that log, that group could in theory cook the books to give its members bitcoins that aren’t theirs. That would completely undermine bitcoin.
Quartz’s Christopher Mims wrote about this, arguing that: “The existential threat to bitcoin its boosters said was impossible is
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