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by Retric 4590 days ago
You can double spend with wallets you own so 1BTC > 2BTC > 4BTC ... any number you want fairly quickly.
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I think this is false. Double spending doesn't create coins, it screws someone who accepted a coin. My understanding of the 51% attack is that you can basically reliably snip the end from the block chain. That doesn't let you put arbitrary things into it.