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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Best practice for fast transaction acceptance - how high is the risk?
by
theymos
on 14/02/2011, 22:40:42 UTC
"When I see a new block with transactions that I didn't see broadcast previously, mark those transactions as suspicious.  If I see double-spends of those transactions, stop building on that block-- assume it is cheating.  Switch to the previous block (or alternate block if there's a block race going on)."

There are no incentives for doing that. If 98% of the network "discourages" a block, then those miners have a small chance of losing their blocks to the 2% that does not discourage the block. However, not discouraging a block has no penalty at all.