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Why is my transaction not getting confirmed and what can I do about it?
I sent around 12 BTC from my Blockchain.info wallet to my LocalBitcoins account. They are showing at LocalBitcoins as an unconfirmed transaction. I have the fee setting at BlockChain.info set at the ...
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How does Satoshi Dice's 'zero confirmations' transaction system work technically?
The popular bitcoin betting game Satoshi Dice sends back payments very fast, they don't wait for confirmations. The user sends money to Satoshi Dice and gets back winnings a couple of seconds later. ...
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Can I spend a coin sent to myself before it confirms?
If I spend the entire balance in my wallet to another address in my own wallet, do I need to wait until it gets one confirmation in order to spend it, or does the client know it is my own funds and ...
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What nodes are best for lessening the risk of loss from a race attack
A successful race attack is one where the payment recipient's node receives a spend transaction yet the next block that is mined has a different transaction that spends the same coin. Thus the ...
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Double spend attack by sending higher fee transaction directly to the pools possible?
The standard client prioritizes TXs by the time of receipt, e.g. a conflicting transaction will not be relayed. This is not enforced by the network, though. Is there anything that would prevent this ...
