Invalid transactions can end up in mempool #2053

issue gmaxwell opened this issue on November 29, 2012
  1. gmaxwell commented at 10:37 PM on November 29, 2012: contributor

    Loadblock an old chain with P2SH violating blocks in it. These blocks are not rejected because they are below the highest checkpoint and the scripts aren't tested. Substituent blocks reorg them out and the transactions are not tested before being inserted in the mempool.

    (just opening an issue so this isn't forgotten, see bitcoin-dev logs from 2012-11-28)

  2. sipa commented at 10:39 PM on November 29, 2012: member

    See also #2052.

  3. gmaxwell commented at 10:40 PM on November 29, 2012: contributor

    jinx

  4. gmaxwell closed this on Nov 29, 2012

  5. MarcoFalke locked this on Sep 8, 2021
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