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greyman on Aug 3, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: BitFinex down due to Bitcoin security breach - 120...

In that new valid blockchain, the transaction where they were given that coin will simply not be there.

0x0 on Aug 3, 2016 [–]

I'm not 100% sure but I think that anyone can re-submit the "undone" transaction to the new blockchain, as long as the source address hasn't already spent its balance on the new chain? Isn't this what's called a "replay"?

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