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Don't all the miners have to run the entire program, so they are validating each other?

No, the mine pool operator has to, but no more than once to cover every miner in his pool. To draw a comparison to bitcoin, there might only be a dozen or so pool entities which receive nearly all of the subsidy and transaction fees, but thousands of non-mining full nodes.

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