Double spending
The act of spending the same coin/token more than once. It is a potential issue in decentralized digital payment systems where transactions are recorded on a blockchain or a similar distributed ledger.
On the Cardano blockchain, double spending cannot occur due to the Extended UTXO accounting model.
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