[Cryptography] Bitcoin Blockchain Has Been Forked (New: BitcoinCash UAHF)
Vasily Kolobkov
polezaivsani at openmailbox.org
Wed Aug 2 06:46:27 PDT 2017
[2017-08-01 23:52 -0400] grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com>
> On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 7:39 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker
> <phill at hallambaker.com> wrote:
> > So what happens if someone spends the coins on both forks???
>
> Then your wallets are empty and you are broke.
Is there really a mechanism in BCC that enforces this?
Miners would need to interop with other chains in order to check
for cross chain double spends of pre-fork outputs. Yet the communication
between BCC and BTC seems unlikely given current state of affairs.
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