From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net>
To: Joel Joonatan Kaartinen <joel.kaartinen@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] From the forums: one-confirmation attack
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:52:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANEZrP0rXWO51O6wJfQ3r3A6bviZ7zpthJjzZkA0JDC7auBEdw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1313681783.14523.79.camel@mei>
> Also, receiving a block with a transaction that hasn't been broadcast to
> the network is in itself quite suspect. Are there cases where that
> happens legitimately?
There's no way to obtain the memory pools of your peers today, so if
you're newly started up it can happen that you get blocks with unseen
transactions.
For vectors variant, I wonder if it'd be safe to report the number of
confirmations differently for the duration of a chain split. If you
have a block but a majority of peers relayed a block that split the
chain, subtract 1 from each confirmation reported via RPC.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-18 15:52 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 [this message]
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
2011-08-18 17:27 ` Gregory Maxwell
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