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by Djrhfbfnsks 1667 days ago
If you don't trust the code of a PoW client, how could you trust it to not simply empty your wallet as soon as you import your private key?
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I was talking about the consensus part. You don't need any client code to understand which is the agreed-upon chain, you verify the hash was generated using lots of energy.

For transacting indeed you need to trust the various clients, but that's easy and can be done once. With the consensus isn't being tampered with, and, more importantly that others are using other types of rules.