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correctness of a new transaction. The connections between peers are
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often visualized as edges (lines) in a graph, with the peers themselves
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being the nodes (dots). For that reason, Bitcoin peers are commonly
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called "full verification nodes," or _full nodes_ for short.
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called "full verification nodes," ((("full nodes")))or _full nodes_ for short.
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Alice's wallet application can send the new
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transaction to any Bitcoin node over any type of
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options are possible too. Any Bitcoin node that receives a
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valid transaction it has not seen before will forward it to
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all other nodes to which it is connected, a propagation technique known
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as _gossiping_. Thus, the transaction rapidly propagates out across the
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((("gossiping")))as _gossiping_. Thus, the transaction rapidly propagates out across the
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peer-to-peer network, reaching a large percentage of the nodes within a
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few seconds.
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