| > What good is a block if no exchange or wallet will accept it (and its coins) as valid? It only matters what the other miners accept. If all the miners accept a block but "exchanges and nodes don't", then they have stopped updating their chain. What are they updating to if it isn't what the miners agree on? > (1) need other nodes to recognize their blocks as valid, No, they need other miners to accept their blocks and build on top of them. > (2) need a reliable underlying network to propagate their blocks. They have that, it's called the internet. Do you think broadcasting 1 MB blocks is difficult? > If 100% of miners are producing blocks that the rest of the network isn't accepting, then 100% of the miners are effectively dead. The miners are the network. If they all agree the other can either relay their chain or do nothing. There is only the chain the miners agree on. What exactly do you think relay nodes will do if they don't relay what the miners create? > You sound like a very pleasant person. This is the cry of someone who can't explain what they claim. I don't know where you formed a solidified but completely wrong idea in your head, but someone mislead you. To recap: There is what the miners agree on or there is nothing. Relay nodes have no say in what a valid block is. They can relay valid blocks or not. |
Update: ah he provided the answer by inviting us to investigate his profile.
He is trying to build a layer on top of bitcoin, and perhaps /he/ relies on non-mining consensus for /his/ uses of tokens /on top of/ bitcoin.
So it would make sense for him to proliferate a fabricated notion that non-mining nodes are important /to bitcoin/ itself.