Questions tagged [finney-attack]
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What is a Finney attack?
What is a Finney attack? Extra points for explaining its purpose, the prerequisites for it to be possible, how the attack can be performed and the origin of the name "Finney attack".
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Would a reduced block generation time make the Finney attack more difficult?
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What can be done to mitigate the risk of a Finney attack?
The Finney attack is a form of double-spending attack where the attacker pre-mines a block containing a conflicting transaction and then publishes a transaction. A…
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What incentive is there for a miner to not cancel his own 'real' txs
It is said that a Bitcoin miner attacker with enough CPU power to outrun the entire network is better off mining honest bitcoins - which is not correct since by creating a false block chain the attacker already wins the coinbase on the way, just…
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Hashrate required for Finney attack on SatoshiDICE
Say I have an address with 1000 different 0.01BTC outputs. I send all of the outputs (in separate transactions) to the 48% SatoshiDICE address. At the same time, I craft a transaction for each of the outputs that sends the money back to myself. Once…
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Can a Finney Attack make SatoshiDice betting profitable?
Can a Finney Attack make SatoshiDice betting profitable? If you perform a Finney Attack whenever your bet fails (by replacing it with a transaction to yourself), then would it make betting profitable, even though the Finney attack won't always work?…
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Can Finney attacks only be made by miners?
I read this article about double spending attacks. The article has a sentence that goes like this:
"Finney attacks can only be executed by miners, and are therefore fairly technical and obscure."
Before this sentence it explains that a double…
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