[Bitcoin-development] Double-spending unconfirmed transactions is a lot easier than most people realise

Jan Møller jan.moller at gmail.com
Wed Apr 23 04:29:22 UTC 2014


>Of course, this is an especially difficult case, as you must send the
>double-spend after the original transaction - normally just sending a
>non-standard tx to Eligius first would suffice. Note how this defeats
>Andresen's double-spend-relay patch(3) as proposed since the
>double-spend is a non-standard transaction.

Why can't you send a non-standard tx to Eligius first in this scenario?​
Is it because LuckyBit is connected directly to Eligius, and does Eligius
relay (not only mine) non-standard transactions?
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