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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: How does someone send fake bitcoins?
by
o
on 26/08/2011, 19:02:53 UTC
I am curious how does someone send fake bitcoins? Also how many confirmations does it take to be sure it is real?

You can confidence to tell other that there is no fake bitcoin. Technically, there is only transaction record in the bitcoin network, so you can at most only double spending. All transaction are checked by all client, so all fake "coin", or transaction with more in balance than out balance, will be noted by all people and would be dropped.