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Data Center Takeover on The Blockchain Rewritten with AI for clarity. I don't have a deep understanding of how the Bitcoin blockchain works, but my understanding is that if a single entity, or a group of entities acting together, controlled more than 50% of the network's mining hash rate, they could potentially create an alternate version of the blockchain and have it accepted as the valid chain for as long as they maintained that majority. Is that correct? If so, could they create fraudulent blocks that appear to show many unrelated wallets sending them large amounts of Bitcoin, even though those transactions were never actually authorized by the owners of those wallets? If they maintained control of the majority hash rate for a period of time, could they use those fraudulently obtained coins to purchase goods or convert them into USD before the honest network regained control and replaced the fraudulent chain with the legitimate one?