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		tocomment on March 5, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bitcoin rises from $14 to $40 in two months I'm confused how a bitcoin bug fix or protocol fix would get implemented? Isn't it a distributed system, so everyone mining coins would have to agree at once?

redegg on March 5, 2013 [–]

It requires more than 50% of the network to agree.

Those who don't will live in their own little fork.

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