Timeline for Has there ever been a successful double spend attack on the Bitcoin network? If not, is it really necessary to wait for confirmations?
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| Dec 13, 2013 at 18:21 | comment | added | RentFree | "Two years ago when the software was written, this single confirm myth was a popular belief."... popular among people with such limited knowledge of the bitcoin technology that they have no business writing software for it | |
| Sep 8, 2011 at 1:30 | comment | added | eMansipater | You'll note that I don't dismiss the Finney attack in my answer, and instead emphasise its importance. | |
| Sep 8, 2011 at 1:21 | comment | added | Stephen Gornick | Though nobody has claimed to have lost to the Finney attack, it should not be dismissed as being unlikely to occur in the future. The likely reason we don't hear of it is that there are few merchants that accept on 0/unconfirmed, and even fewer selling goods of enough value for it to be worth it for the attacker to attempt this even. | |
| Sep 8, 2011 at 0:28 | history | answered | eMansipater | CC BY-SA 3.0 |