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by dllthomas 4571 days ago
"In your system, if you had a double-spend where both sides ended up being accepted due to a netsplit, which one would win during the healing process? In bitcoin, the winner is the one that happens to be in the longest chain."

That doesn't seem to be unanswerable, and it's not like "happens to be on the longest chain" is more deserving or anything, it just happens to be the way it works in bitcoin.