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skarz | 6 months ago

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tromp|6 months ago

No, it's not 6 blocks longer. It just needs to be 1 longer (i.e. 7 blocks since the last common block), which guarantees a higher cumulative difficulty and thus all honest miners will switch to the new branch, obsoleting 6 blocks on the old branch.

skarz|6 months ago

Well, there you have it. GPT-5 failed a basic explanation lol.

1270018080|6 months ago

It would be impossible to enforce, and a place that HN that has leaders who evangelize AI as a cure-all would never do it, but "I asked AI and here's what it said" comments should be against the rules.

dragonwriter|6 months ago

Actually, they shouldn't, because then people will do it without announcing them, and you want them to be open.

They're almost invariably low quality and deserving of downvotes for that reason, but being open is better than them being camouflaged.

dotancohen|6 months ago

Why?

Most such comments are actually informative, and the honesty about asking an AI is an important detail. This particular one was heavily downvoted, as it should have been, because it was wrong. It was still a human writing, trying to be helpful.