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From: "theymos" <theymos@mm•st>
To: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] From the forums: one-confirmation attack
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:47:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1313686076.6324.140258131139585@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABsx9T0AgUL+rphhB8YUVHDGJnc0TmaYG=kjt7Pz1yrwLjBbDQ@mail.gmail.com>

> The part of the network that did not receive my block first (which
> hopefully is most of the miners) will accept this as valid and work to
> include it in the next block.

To make this more difficult, nodes that receive new transactions via
blocks should relay the new transactions as if they had received them
normally. Then the double-spend transaction will be rejected by most of
the network because the other version is already widely-known.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-18 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-18 14:00 Gavin Andresen
2011-08-18 15:36 ` Joel Joonatan Kaartinen
2011-08-18 15:52   ` Mike Hearn
2011-08-18 16:16     ` Gavin Andresen
2011-08-18 16:46       ` Gregory Maxwell
2011-08-18 17:36         ` Gavin Andresen
2011-08-18 16:47 ` theymos [this message]
2011-08-18 17:27   ` Gregory Maxwell

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