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Yeah, I expect sneakernet to work pretty well. A few weeks is way better than nothing. Also, you don't need to use an active internet connection to make reliable zero-confirmation transactions (see lightning network, although it's true that monitoring for confirmations requires internet data- so you have to set the timeouts to be way way into the future, which is reasonable and not unexpected).



How on earth does that work? Forget double spends, here come the quadruple and quintuple spends!

Zero-conf is fundamentally broken.


> Zero-conf is fundamentally broken.

Yep. Double-spending zero-conf transactions can work as long as you are using a payment channel (where the other side is receiving each transaction). That's how the "payment channel" concepts work.




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