From: Mark Friedenbach <mark@monetize.io>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Double-spending unconfirmed transactions is a lot easier than most people realise
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 23:35:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53575F1A.2000504@monetize.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABh=4qMk5RbM9pErQd9EsabWo8uP9u82yZOXk87AxdmAPq8H_Q@mail.gmail.com>
On 04/22/2014 09:29 PM, Jan Møller wrote:
>>Of course, this is an especially difficult case, as you must send the
>>double-spend after the original transaction - normally just sending a
>>non-standard tx to Eligius first would suffice. Note how this defeats
>>Andresen's double-spend-relay patch(3) as proposed since the
>>double-spend is a non-standard transaction.
>
> Why can't you send a non-standard tx to Eligius first in this scenario?
> Is it because LuckyBit is connected directly to Eligius, and does
> Eligius relay (not only mine) non-standard transactions?
>
Because you only want to double-spend if you loss the bet. If you tried
to double-spend every bet, there'd be no point :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-23 6:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-22 21:31 [Bitcoin-development] Double-spending unconfirmed transactions is a lot easier than most people realise Peter Todd
2014-04-23 4:29 ` Jan Møller
2014-04-23 6:35 ` Mark Friedenbach [this message]
2014-04-23 4:45 ` Tom Harding
2014-04-23 4:03 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-04-23 22:29 ` Tom Harding
2014-04-24 0:42 ` Simon Barber
2014-04-23 4:22 ` Jeff Garzik
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