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The legitimate fork will take over because honest nodes will reject the illegitimate one because it contains double-spends. So as long as the majority of nodes
by GhostVII 5y ago
The legitimate fork will take over because honest nodes will reject the illegitimate one because it contains double-spends. So as long as the majority of nodes are honest it will eventually take over.
- remram 5y agoNo fork can "contain double-spend". The idea of a double-spend is to spend once in two separate forks, e.g. taking back your money and spending it again even though you have received a service or good in exchange of it already.
- GhostVII 5y agoInteresting, so basically no transactions are illegitimate they are just wiping out old ones by publishing a longer chain? In that case, could you protect yourself against an x hour attack by waiting x hours to consider a transaction confirmed?