[Bitcoin-development] Double Spend Notification

[Peter Todd]

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 01:39:30PM +1000, Robert Backhaus wrote:
> That's good - what I had taken away from the replace-by-fee discussions was
> that it was finally decided.
> 
> My opinion is that we should be doing what we can to make 0-confs as
> reliable as possible - which will always be 'not very', but a solid system
> to notify on attempted double-spends is a good start.
> 
> I'd like to know how Peter Todd's experiment with the 2BTC reward has gone.

piuk wrote a double-spender that I think meets the criteria for the
reward: https://blockchain.info/create-double-spend

I'll get a chance to test it properly when I'm back from vacation, but
looks like he's getting the 2BTC. If it does work as intended I'm also
planning on doing a demo/video at the next Toronto Bitcoin Meetup to
demonstrate the attack in a real-life exchange.

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'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org
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