But how does bitcoin actually work?
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Signatures address authorization of individual payments. They do not by themselves resolve competing histories; Bitcoin adds linked blocks and cumulative proof of work as a selection rule.
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each one of those lines on the ledger requires a completely new signaturethe one with the most work put into it