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transactions

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double-spend

Double Spend

Transactions 3 references

An attempt to spend the same funds twice by creating conflicting transactions. Consensus and confirmation depth are used to prevent or mitigate double spends.

Appears in 3 whitepaper sections

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$BTC Bitcoin
Transactions
... The problem of course is the payee can't verify that one of the owners did not double-spend the coin. A common solution is to introduce a trusted central authority, or min...
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$BCH Bitcoin Cash
Transaction Throughput and Scalability
...ule (where nodes relay only the first version of a transaction they see, making double-spend attempts more difficult) and double-spend notification protocols that alert mer...
Network Architecture
...on they observe. If a second transaction attempting to spend the same inputs (a double-spend attempt) is detected, nodes will generate a double-spend proof and propagate it...

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