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Board Service Discussion
Re: MtGox?
by
Roy Badami
on 26/01/2014, 21:12:43 UTC
Rumor has it that they also double spent in the last couple of months.

AIUI the apparent double spends were pay-to-self transactions used to invalidate a transaction that for some reason never made it to the blockchain in a timely manner.  So they resent those same coins back to themselves (the 'pay-to-self' transaction) and then made a new withdrawal transaction.

TL;DR The whole apparent double spend scare turned out to be nothing to worry about.