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Re: New, simple online wallet: www.instawallet.org - no signup required
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jav
on 01/05/2011, 20:37:01 UTC
It is definitely an issue-- the account code doesn't keep track of where the coins it is sending out came from, so if you accept 0-confirmation coins you're vulnerable to double-spending attacks (see, for example, the discussion of the "Finney attack" in these forums).

I see, thx for clearing that up. I would really like to keep the speedy transactions, so I have decided to still allow 0-confirmation transactions. But I implemented a server-wide rate-limit for those transactions, which should make the Finney attack not worth the effort.


Great idea, that's probably how I'm going to do it!