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What Is the Relationship between Mining and Network Security?

Mining is fundamental to network security in PoW systems. Miners validate transactions and append new blocks to the chain, which requires significant computational power.

This energy expenditure makes it economically prohibitive for a malicious actor to gain control and alter the historical record, thereby ensuring the integrity and immutability of the blockchain.

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