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Not particularly... an attacker with a rack of GPU filled machines will only find a valid block every 10 days or so, and blocks are valid for around 10 minutes on average: this is a relatively narrow window for double spending, and not an opportunity to waste on a small transaction.

There are other attacks that rely on the receiver being fenced off from the wider network, but those are even harder to coordinate.



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