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Arbortheus
1265 days ago
That’s very trusting that there isn’t some race condition on the POS that ends up charging them all.
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Waterluvian
1265 days ago
I’m pretty confident that POS transactions are idempotent. It’s an entire state machine that you’re working through, too, so I doubt it’s capable of performing multiple transactions during the middle of one transaction.
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xwdv
1265 days ago
We’ll know we’re in the future when the payment gets split evenly amongst all participants. It’s like paying down a bill with the power of friendship.
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