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0 pointsTekMol6y ago0 comments

Well, the reason for an attack is to reverse transactions. For that to have any value, the blocks must be accepted by the chain in the future.

And no, a miner can not "easily" ignore previous blocks.

And blocks with invalid transactions get ignored by everyone anyhow.

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flir6y ago

Nah, the reason is to split the head of the chain for a period of time, and do different things in each chain. Then when one of the heads is declared "true", you gain advantage (typically you spend the same coins twice, once in each head).

greenshackle26y ago

You say "nah", but what you are describing is reversing a transaction, I don't see how that is disagreement.

From the POV of the recipient, when the split branch becomes the "non-true" branch, it looks like they got the money but then it disappeared.

pat2man6y ago

If you are considering the recipient a human interpreting the results, then this is a failure of their wallet UI. The block chain is a tree not a log. The views that show it as a log are just showing you the statistically most likely outcome. If you look at the raw data you see all possibilities.

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