From: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail•com>
To: Ben Reeves <support@pi•uk.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Duplicate transactions vulnerability
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:46:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABsx9T1YbFLcuCLbZZvSJGPy9k0PRgWttOp-KPUW+99XSYTkQQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPBPUnqgV_hHYwFoB_1qXMvEaE1pM0vm8=V=AKe2n-rPFzz+mQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Ben Reeves <support@pi•uk.com> wrote:
> A malicious miner can produce a duplicate coinbase which the majority
> of clients will accept but the majority of hashing power won't.
> Spending the coinbase output after....
That can't happen until the coinbase matures, which takes 100 blocks.
And it won't mature because a majority of hashing power is rejecting
it, right?
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Gavin Andresen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-29 22:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-28 16:48 Pieter Wuille
2012-02-28 17:12 ` Brautigam Róbert
2012-02-28 17:18 ` Pieter Wuille
2012-02-28 18:10 ` Gavin Andresen
2012-02-28 18:23 ` Luke-Jr
2012-02-28 20:24 ` Pieter Wuille
2012-02-28 20:35 ` Ben Reeves
2012-02-29 1:41 ` Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
2012-02-29 16:47 ` Pieter Wuille
2012-02-29 17:02 ` Amir Taaki
2012-02-29 21:00 ` Stefan Thomas
2012-02-29 22:05 ` Ben Reeves
2012-02-29 22:38 ` Matt Corallo
2012-02-29 22:46 ` Gavin Andresen [this message]
2012-02-29 23:00 ` Ben Reeves
[not found] ` <20120229232029.GA6073@vps7135.xlshosting.net>
2012-02-29 23:45 ` Pieter Wuille
2012-03-01 10:15 ` Ben Reeves
2012-03-01 13:09 ` Ben Reeves
2012-03-01 14:27 ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-03-01 17:20 ` Ben Reeves
2012-03-01 14:30 ` Pieter Wuille
2012-03-02 1:56 ` Pieter Wuille
2012-03-03 16:41 ` Pieter Wuille
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