Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

You don't think what has? There have been double spend attacks against BTC.



source?


Not exactly a double spend, but billions BTC being printed out of thin air: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=822.0


It has happened before but that was in 2010 when the codebase was < 2 years old.


It's happened quite a few times after that. Consider the merchants who have been known to use fewer than the standard # of confirmations and what it takes to reverse or reuse those charges. For example, here is a blog post on one way to do this: https://blog.acolyer.org/2015/10/01/misbehavior-in-bitcoin-a.... If you want to search you will find that there are scripts to automate this type of action by constructing bitcoin transactions.

Also, consider ghash.io or the odd OKPAY double spends.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: