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Re: Is FullRBF allowing double spend?
by
BlackHatCoiner
on 03/09/2023, 21:13:02 UTC
⭐ Merited by o_e_l_e_o (4) ,DdmrDdmr (4) ,ETFbitcoin (3) ,hosseinimr93 (2) ,pooya87 (2) ,stompix (1)
First of all, I'd kindly ask you to lower the height of your images as they take too much space.

What if a dishonest user sends a TX with low Fee (1 Sat/vB) to a vending machine, the machine releases the product, and after some time that user performs a FullRBF changing the destination address to one of his own addresses?
The vending machine owner is at a loss, indeed. That's why they shouldn't be releasing the product under a 0-conf transaction. That was less likely to occur before Full-RBF, with RBF disabled, as it'd require to convince a mining pool to double-spend your transaction, but currently it's just really trivial. But, that's the normal state of the network; no confirmation, means can be double-spent.

Now the vending machine owner has two options;
  • either make the user wait for 1 confirmation (nobody's going to wait 10 minutes for a coca cola, I know), or:
  • adapt with second layers, like lightning.