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Dev Docs: Remove Majority Mentions In Not A Spec (thanks saivann)
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harding committed Dec 13, 2014
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Expand Up @@ -38,13 +38,13 @@ Bitcoin security depends on consensus. Should your program diverge from
consensus, its security is weakened or destroyed. The cause of the
divergence doesn't matter: it could be a bug in your program, it could
be an [error in this documentation][errors in docs] which you
implemented as described, or it could be you do everything right but the
majority software on the network [behaves unexpectedly][v0.8 chain
implemented as described, or it could be you do everything right but
other software on the network [behaves unexpectedly][v0.8 chain
fork]. The specific cause will not matter to the users of your software
whose wealth is lost.

The only correct specification of consensus behavior is the actual
program behavior of the majority software on the network. As that
behavior of programs on the network which maintain consensus. As that
behavior is subject to arbitrary inputs<!--noref--> in a large variety
of unique environments, it cannot ever be fully documented here or
anywhere else.
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