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Surely proof of work also requires trust in a group of miners, trusting that 51% of them don't collude?

As mining complexity grows, surely this problem is only exasperated, since you need a bigger investment to be able to mine effectively, which would presumably result in an even smaller group of more powerful miners?



So far Bitcoin mining is getting increasingly decentralized in practice - from China to Iran to US to Venezuela.




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