<p>The order will never be confirmed, and depending on what wallet your using, it should be reflected as never having been confirmed and won't show up in your balance. </p>

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Loourr
<p>The appearance of a double-spend on the network throws the status of the earlier payment into doubt.  The doubt is only resolved when one of the payments is confirmed.  As always, the more confirmations, the more certainty that the payment will be permanent.</p>

<p>The recipient of the payment that was double-spent is NOT notified very quickly.  The bitcoin network itself tries not to propagate double-spends.  Therefore, the earliest that recipient reliably learns of the problem is when the double-spend is actually confirmed in a block.</p>

<p>Even then, most wallets are not very vocal about notification.  This is an area where bitcoin could improve.  A bitcoin core <a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4570" rel="nofollow">improvement</a> request initiated by Gavin Andresen does exist.</p>

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Tom Harding
<p>What happens if the 'High' risk option (one confirmation) was chosen and then the TX turns out to be a double spend in the end? Would the value deposited be revoked? Would the user be notified somehow?</p>

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You've put the tag [tag:bitpay] on this. Do you mean to ask this specifically from the perspective of a merchant using BitPay to accept payments? If yes, you might want to clarify that in your question. :) I've also added the tag [tag:doublespend].
Murch
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What happens if a TX was a double spend?
Kar
# What happens if a TX was a double spend?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-12-15)

What happens if the 'High' risk option (one confirmation) was chosen and then the TX turns out to be a double spend in the end? Would the value deposited be revoked? Would the user be notified somehow?

**Tags:** confirmations, doublespend, bitpay

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: You've put the tag [tag:bitpay] on this. Do you mean to ask this specifically from the perspective of a merchant using BitPay to accept payments? If yes, you might want to clarify that in your question. :) I've also added the tag [tag:doublespend].  

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2014-12-15. Score: 0 | Accepted answer

The order will never be confirmed, and depending on what wallet your using, it should be reflected as never having been confirmed and won't show up in your balance.


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### Answer by username_3 on 2014-12-16. Score: 2

The appearance of a double-spend on the network throws the status of the earlier payment into doubt. The doubt is only resolved when one of the payments is confirmed. As always, the more confirmations, the more certainty that the payment will be permanent.

The recipient of the payment that was double-spent is NOT notified very quickly. The bitcoin network itself tries not to propagate double-spends. Therefore, the earliest that recipient reliably learns of the problem is when the double-spend is actually confirmed in a block.

Even then, most wallets are not very vocal about notification. This is an area where bitcoin could improve. A bitcoin core [improvement](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4570) request initiated by Gavin Andresen does exist.


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