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Mining orphanage refers to a situation in cryptocurrency mining where a block is found by a miner but is not accepted by the main blockchain because another block was found almost simultaneously by another miner. As a result, the block that was found becomes an "orphan block," and the transactions within it are not confirmed or included in the main chain. This can happen due to network latency or differences in the propagation speed of blocks among miners. In essence, orphan blocks are valid but ultimately discarded in favor of longer chains.

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