10 Billion bitcoin uncofirmed transaction on blockchain.info. EDIT: It's gone.

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Quote from: sgravina on March 13, 2014, 05:16:45 PM

That is an invalid transaction. All the miners ignore it. You can make bogus transactions an broadcast them. Bloockchain.info will show them at first and then stop showing them. They will never be included in a block because it has a negative fee.

Here is one I saw a while ago created by gmaxwell:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1168214

I see, someone try to act smart and use a modded client to do a transaction with negative fees, but they can't outsmart the bitcoin developers that obviously make the transaction invalid.
All is safe, no panic required.

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That is an invalid transaction. All the miners ignore it. You can make bogus transactions an broadcast them. Bloockchain.info will show them at first and then stop showing them. They will never be included in a block because it has a negative fee.

Here is one I saw a while ago created by gmaxwell:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1168214

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Any miner including such transactions in their own blocks would be starting their own fork. No one else will accept their blocks.

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Terminated.

Quote from: coinft on March 13, 2014, 03:05:07 PM

Quote from: waldox on March 13, 2014, 02:31:57 PM

if this 10 Billion BTC transaction was paired with a 51% attack by the same people
could this invalid transaction be made valid and screw up the blockchain ledgers?

No, with a 51% attack you can only double spend bitcoins you have legitimately.

Correct. You can't produce insane amounts of coins.

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Quote from: waldox on March 13, 2014, 02:31:57 PM

if this 10 Billion BTC transaction was paired with a 51% attack by the same people
could this invalid transaction be made valid and screw up the blockchain ledgers?

No, with a 51% attack you can only double spend bitcoins you have legitimately.

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if this 10 Billion BTC transaction was paired with a 51% attack by the same people
could this invalid transaction be made valid and screw up the blockchain ledgers?

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Quote from: Bigeyeone on March 13, 2014, 01:15:53 PM

Other then a bug on blockchain.info i not yet seen a real explanation for this, if it is not a bug on blockchain.info then bitcoin nodes must have relayed this malicious transaction onto the network, why it was relayed on the network by the nodes but not included in a block beats me.

Maybe it was fed directly to blockchain.info and to no other nodes. Maybe blockchain.info just displayed it momentarily and did not actually relay it either.

I would also assume that inclusion in a block has a lot more checks than a relay: no one likes to mine orphan blocks or end on the wrong side of a fork.

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Other then a bug on blockchain.info i not yet seen a real explanation for this, if it is not a bug on blockchain.info then bitcoin nodes must have relayed this malicious transaction onto the network, why it was relayed on the network by the nodes but not included in a block beats me.

Maybe the node that sent this transaction was one hop away from the blockchain.info node and their custom node does not follow bitcoin protocol and displayed and relayed this fraudulent transaction when it was supose to ban the node that sent this transaction to it ?

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Quote from: BitAddict on March 13, 2014, 12:52:47 PM

Quote from: mustyoshi on March 13, 2014, 12:34:24 PM

If they weren't trying impossibly large transactions, would they be able to succeed?

If you don't have the funds is also invalid and invalid transaction. You can only do it with a 51% attack.

Not even 100% would suffice. No (real) nodes would accept blocks with invalid transactions.

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Helicopter Ben, Super Mario Draghi or another baby squid trying to "fight unemployment" with trickle down billions and discovering the Bitcoin protocol is a bit different than the USD or EUR. Tongue

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Quote from: mustyoshi on March 13, 2014, 12:34:24 PM

If they weren't trying impossibly large transactions, would they be able to succeed?

If you don't have the funds is also an invalid transaction. You can only do it with a 51% attack.

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If they weren't trying impossibly large transactions, would they be able to succeed?

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Ten Birrion BitCoins Oh my a god! Nice level dude.

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the transaction is real, but nothing to worry about.

it is only Mark Karpeles cashing out.

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Quote from: piuk on March 13, 2014, 11:02:54 AM

Should be fixed now.

Thanks for your fast answer

Quote from: passerby1969 on March 13, 2014, 11:02:30 AM

Here you go (edit: the original one OP referenced):

Thanks!

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abaddon

https://i.imgur.com/HP8RWc9.png

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Should be fixed now.

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Here you go (edit: the original one OP referenced):
https://i.imgur.com/lvJBeHg.jpg

BitAddict

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They're doing it again. They probably want to spread panic and try to drop the price.
Or maybe just a blockchain.info bug, I don't know.
Just don't get scary, this transactions are invalid and WON'T CONFIRM.

Look.

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Could you not create an invalid raw transaction which attempted to send 10 billion coins? The network would throw it out.

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