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by murbard2 4345 days ago
>No, you don't have to trust the miners because there are no known collusive schemes that would make more money for that volume of miners than playing by the rules would.

Yes there is, coordinated conditional double spending on gambling websites.

There are also non pecuniary reasons to attack the network, such as vandalism (miners could be pressured into colluding by a government for instance)

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What is coordinated conditional double spending?