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caymanjim • yesterday at 11:23 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

By the nature of blockchain, it's never, ever your crypto. It's allocated to whichever bucket the majority of participants in a given network agree to allocate it to.


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dlubarov • today at 12:58 AM

Well, not exactly. A malicious majority of miners could rewind the chain as they please. They could indirectly steal some funds by undoing certain transfers, but they couldn’t just directly reassign funds to themselves.

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