🔖 Title: From the forums: one-confirmation attack
🏷️ Categories: Bitcoin-development
👥 Authors:
• Mike Hearn ( Mike Hearn [ARCHIVE] (npub17ty…qgyd) )
• theymos ( theymos [ARCHIVE] (npub10vt…per0) )
• Gregory Maxwell ( Gregory Maxwell [ARCHIVE] (npub1f2n…rwet) )
• Gavin Andresen ( Gavin Andresen [ARCHIVE] (npub1s4l…44kw) )
• Joel Joonatan Kaartinen ( Joel Joonatan Kaartinen [ARCHIVE] (npub1654…8xrx) )
🗒️ Conversation Summary: The Bitcoin community discusses the risks of a "Finney attack" and the importance of not accepting 1-confirmation transactions and being well-connected. Gavin Andresen proposes a confidence measure for transaction reliability and a placeholder for faster confirmation. The community also discusses the potential risks of double-spending attacks and the importance of relaying new transactions normally to prevent them.
📅 Messages Date: 2011-08-18
✉️ Message Count: 8
📚 Total Characters in Messages: 10333
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2023-06-07 02:16:20
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2023-06-07 02:16:20Event JSON
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