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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Making 0-conf TXs relatively safe "again"
by
TalkingAntColony
on 19/05/2013, 21:15:59 UTC
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the transaction Tx3 is special (this would need an extension of the scripting language). In order to use it, one needs to provide two *different* spendings of B0.
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There is nothing stopping Tx3 from being broadcast and accepted by the network [...]
As he said it is a special TX. [...]

I feel like this is a grey area with the proposal. You cannot simply assume there exists a feasible extension to scripting which would allow the network to verify that a double spend occurred.

Also, what happens when the payer double-spends to another merchant using this proposal's mechanism? Who's Tx3 would be valid?