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if this gets adopted, and you run a lite/SPV/api node wallet (electrum, multibit, blockchain.info etc) make sure you wait for additional confirmations (6+)! 0-2+ confirmation transactions will be much less safe for anyone that does not run a full node.
Absolutely true. Assuming that those 0-2+ confirmations all come within 30 seconds...
https://github.com/bitcoinclassic/bitcoinclassic/pull/152There is a hard-coded 30-second timeout; if the full block data takes longer than 30 seconds to get validated and propagated across the network, or is never sent, miners switch back to mining non-empty blocks on the last fully-validated block.
So, I definitely agree with trashman43. You should absolutely wait for more than your usual number of confirmations (unless 30 seconds have already passed since you received the payment, in which case it looks like it may be ok to just go with whatever your usual number of required confirmations is).