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by 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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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.
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.