Now broken? It was always broken in this manner. Merchants have always had to account for the risk of unconfirmed transactions in one way or another (and if the

Now broken? It was always broken in this manner. Merchants have always had to account for the risk of unconfirmed transactions in one way or another (and if they were ignoring that they were negligent). With online shopping it's relatively easier in that you can wait until the payment posts to the network before you complete the transaction, but this definitely would interfere with brick-and-mortar types of activities, ATMs, etc.