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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] From the forums: one-confirmation attack
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On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:47 PM, theymos <theymos@mm.st> wrote:
> To make this more difficult, nodes that receive new transactions via
> blocks should relay the new transactions as if they had received them
> normally. Then the double-spend transaction will be rejected by most of
> the network because the other version is already widely-known.

Not that helpful. In that attack pattern the attacker can release the
block and the conflicting transaction at the same time (to different
nodes, of course). They can also inject the conflicting transaction
into many places in the network at once.