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ghash has been caught before abusing 0 confirmation betting with double spend. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=327767.0

Also even if another pool won twice in a row it wouldn't matter. Over the next few blocks ghash's blockchain would become longer and all bitcoin clients would accept it.

Oh well 0 confirmation has a lot of issues. But thanks for the info.

What I'm saying with the double-win is that it blatantly exposes GHash's ignoring of blocks they don't like, not that they would actually lose over time.

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