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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Double Spending - How To?
by
mexxer-2
on 01/10/2015, 10:38:15 UTC
To keep this simple, let's assume I am using a wallet like Bitcoin Wallet by Bitcoin Wallet developers on an Android smartphone. I go into a coffee shop and buy using my bitcoin wallet. I understand that it is going to take about 5 to 10 minutes before the transaction is first registered on the Blockchain.

How can I then "double spend" my bitcoin?

You just can't. Satoshi Nakomoto took care of this. You may try though, but there were no successful double-spend in the whole history of BTC as far as I know.
There was one, you may have missed it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=152348.0 and several double spends have happened when sellers gave the goods before at least 2 confs