Bitcoin: The Double-Spend Never Happened

[Bluestein]

https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-double-spend-that-never-happened

[Bluestein]

"Put another way, no bitcoin was 'double-spent' because no new coins were added to Bitcoin’s supply. Instead, the same coins from the same wallet were registered in two different blocks during a typical split in Bitcoin’s blockchain."

[corradoverh]

This is why most wallets wait for 6 confirmations before declaring the transaction as confirmed.