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Minor improvements to BIP 30

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Pieter Wuille 2012-03-03 16:51:15 +01:00
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==Specification== ==Specification==
To counter this problem, the following network rule is introduced: To counter this problem, the following network rule is introduced:
*Blocks are not allowed to contain a transaction whose identifier matches that of an earlier, not-fully-spent transaction in the same chain. *Blocks are not allowed to contain a transaction whose hash matches that of an earlier transaction in the same chain, unless that earlier transaction was already fully spent before said block.
This rule is to be applied to all blocks whose timestamp is after a point in time that is yet to be decided. This rule is to be applied to all blocks whose timestamp is after a point in time that is yet to be decided.
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A patch for the reference client can be found on https://github.com/sipa/bitcoin/tree/nooverwritetx A patch for the reference client can be found on https://github.com/sipa/bitcoin/tree/nooverwritetx
==Acknowledgements== ==Acknowledgements==
Thanks to Russell O'Connor for finding and demonstrating this problem, and helping test the patch. Thanks to Russell O'Connor for finding and demonstrating this problem and helping test the patch, and to Ben Reeves for pointing out a few weaknesses in the implementation.
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