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author | Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com> | 2012-05-29 11:33:13 -0400 |
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committer | bitcoindev <bitcoindev@gnusha.org> | 2012-05-29 15:33:24 +0000 |
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Re: [Bitcoin-development] Punishing empty blocks?
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