Why Nostr? What is Njump?
2023-06-07 15:22:46
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Mike Hearn [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2014-06-16 📝 Original message:> > I only meant that ...

📅 Original date posted:2014-06-16
📝 Original message:>
> I only meant that double spends minutes apart are possible and that by then
> the sole use of a monitor is too late even if it will tell you.
>

As long as miners stick to Satoshi's first seen rule, which is the default,
it's useful:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=423.msg3819#msg3819

(this is the famous "snack machine" thread from 2010)

If they decide to change to something like highest-fee-always-wins, then
they (again) centralise things by forcing all instant transactions to pay
GreenAddress and its competitors money - much though I like your product
Lawrence, let's hope they don't collectively lemming us all off a cliff by
doing that ;)
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