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Re: confirmations
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penguin_brian
on 23/01/2013, 23:59:28 UTC
Simple version is no.  There is no such thing as a "fake" block.  Either the block is valid or it is invalid.  An attacker could broadcast invalid blocks on the network, however it is trivial to validate a block.  The average CPU can validate a block in a fraction of a second so it isn't much of an attack.  No miner is going to build upon a block until they validate it.  If the block doesn't validate it will be discarded.  

So back to where I started :-(

Why is 2 confirmations better then one confirmation?

Perhaps it is related to the answer to this question: What happens if two miners generate a valid block a the same time? Which one wins?