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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Stats on malled transactions
by
Jan
on 11/02/2014, 11:21:50 UTC
Two transactions with different hashes and with overlapping inputs.
The definition is not entirely correct as a malled tx is not a double spend.
it will result in one though if the user has also tried to spend the change output of the original transaction that was voided by the malleable one. this seems to be happening quite a lot based on network chatter. probably because the client allows spending the change while it's unconfirmed.
Correct. All wallets allowing spending unconfirmed coins-sent-to-self (bitcoin-qt included) are potentially affected.
If this trend continues wallets may have to abandon this practice until mallability issues have been resolved.