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I only meant that double spends minutes apart are possible and that by then<br>
the sole use of a monitor is too late even if it will tell you.<br></blockquote><div></div></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">As long as miners stick to Satoshi's first seen rule, which is the default, it's useful:</div>
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<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">(this is the famous "snack machine" thread from 2010)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">If they decide to change to something like highest-fee-always-wins, then they (again) centralise things by forcing all instant transactions to pay GreenAddress and its competitors money - much though I like your product Lawrence, let's hope they don't collectively lemming us all off a cliff by doing that ;)</div>
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