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Bitcoin is a consensus system. It is paramount that all participating nodes reach the exact same state.

If undefined behavior could make some nodes accept a transaction while others reject it the state would become inconsistent and potentially mutually exclusive. From one currency, you'd have two and every coin could be spent twice.




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