📅 Original date posted:2014-10-28
📝 Original message:On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 2:26 AM, Tom Harding <tomh at thinlink.com> wrote:
> Matt,
>
> You're right, thanks. Without double-spend relay, miner won't know that
> some txes conflict with anything.
Even with that, the miner cannot tell, his only safe option is to
include no transactions at all.
Consider a malicious miner can concurrently flood all other miners
with orthogonal double spends (which he doesn't mine himself). These
other miners will all be spending some amount of their time mining on
these transactions before realizing others consider them
double-spends.
Gregory Maxwell [ARCHIVE] /
npub1f2…crwet
2023-06-07 15:26:58
in reply to nevent1q…5g2h
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