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How would a secret chain even get 1000 blocks ahead? There's zero probability of this happening over that long of a period of time while there's almost 400 exahash behind the main Bitcoin chain. The compute and energy just doesn't exist in the world to do that.
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nobody 2y ago

To you final question the answer is "just wait a while" because 6 confirmations is when that feasibility becomes so highly unlikely that it's not worth worrying over.

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a_priori 2y ago

Sort of unrelated, but do you happen to know why Liquid peg ins take 102 confirmations? Are they trying to get the probability of a reorg to ~0%?

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Nice and Kind Vic 2y ago

I think this actually could be related, but may piggyback the Bitcoin coinbase output that cant be spent for 100 confirmations. For example if a miner pegged into Liquid using their coinbase then that address (the peg in) couldnt be spent for 100 more blocks. Does make me curious if theres another reason

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nobody 2y ago

I know next to nothing about Liquid, sorry.