Bitcoin is not the heaviest valid chain, and there is no “definition” of Bitcoin either.
It is a vague term that exists because of a general consensus all sorts of participants, which have weight in different ways (economic, computational, leadership, publicity, etc.)
And there is no strict weight to define 50%+1 but many different powers that form a result.
A node by itself does not have any weight in this, and only its operator could hold weight by being economically active (buyer/seller/platform), mining, via public participation in discussions, etc.
semisol
npub122…cgrkj
2026-08-22 19:12:29 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…eyym
Author Public Key
npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkjSeen on
wss://nostr.momPublished at
2026-08-22 19:12:29 UTCEvent JSON
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