# Gavin Andresen
# 2012-01-11 15:24:48
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=56969.msg685965#msg685965

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Right........ @p{par}


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Also, the worst case scenario isn't very scary@p{--} worst case is the less-than-50%-of-miners who did the switch find themselves on the short end of a blockchain split, so they lose revenue (and transactions take longer to confirm because the network is working on two different chains). @p{par}

That would motivate them to either quickly recruit more hashing power or quickly switch back to the old rules.