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Change 'longer' chain with 'more work' chain

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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
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@ -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.