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teapot01 on March 17, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Basically and for dummies, what to do with...

Without mining (proof of work) how would the block chain be considered secure and immutable?

amalag on March 20, 2017 [–]

Consensus. And again, it is not a block chain. There are distributed ledgers. This is a whitepaper: https://ripple.com/files/ripple_consensus_whitepaper.pdf

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