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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Chances of successful double spend RBF
by
Pumared
on 28/04/2019, 00:10:18 UTC
TLDR: What would be the chances of performing a successful Replace By Fee (double spend) before the block gets confirmed?
Scenario: I own a computer shop in Yangon, and I am looking into accepting Bitcoin payments at my shop. I am fairly new to crypto and I recently read about the Replace by fee (RBF) feature. My concern is: what if a customer comes and buys a MacBook or any product, completes the purchase with Bitcoin, then leaves the store and re-broadcasts a transaction with slightly higher fee back to themselves within the next 10 minutes.
How likely are RBF successful? Is there any way I can prevent this?
Thank you!

Before confirmation of the block is possible in some crypts, but after confirmation of the block the transaction does not enter