From c8421df39a3a49781e249cce9390168ce2703510 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Faisal Qureshi <85436772+QureshiFaisal@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2024 15:26:45 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Change 'longer' chain with 'more work' chain The longer chain does not always have more proof of work and thus is not always the best chain. Rather, the best chain is the chain with more proof of work --- ch11_blockchain.adoc | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ch11_blockchain.adoc b/ch11_blockchain.adoc index 8ff7cd97..b7858029 100644 --- a/ch11_blockchain.adoc +++ b/ch11_blockchain.adoc @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ change. After 100 blocks back there is so much stability that the coinbase transaction--the transaction containing the reward in bitcoin for creating a new block--can be spent. While the -protocol always allows a chain to be undone by a longer chain and while +protocol always allows a chain to be undone by another chain with more work and while the possibility of any block being reversed always exists, the probability of such an event decreases as time passes until it ((("blockchain", "explained", startref="blockchain-explain")))becomes infinitesimal.