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by fragsworth 4539 days ago
Don't all the miners have to run the entire program, so they are validating each other?
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No, the mine pool operator has to, but no more than once to cover every miner in his pool. To draw a comparison to bitcoin, there might only be a dozen or so pool entities which receive nearly all of the subsidy and transaction fees, but thousands of non-mining full nodes.