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Re:Protecting your capital during a war by pydry on Monday February 08, 2021 @08:28AM (#26064113)
How do you prevent double spend in the intervening period?
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Re:Protecting your capital during a war by exit on Monday February 08, 2021 @09:01AM (#26064514)
the risk is that a transaction you've accepted gets invalidated by a competing spend of its inputs in a chain coming out of a different "network zone"

so you wait for more block confirmations

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