# Gavin Andresen
# 2010-07-20 16:59:48
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=496.msg4488#msg4488

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I'm not personally notified, no...  @s{wink}   But if I have a Bitcoin client connected to the network then yes, it (along with all the other connected clients) should be sent every transaction shortly after they happen.  It has to@p{--} it might be generating blocks, and the whole point of block generation is to record the valid transactions the client has seen that haven't been included in a previous block. @p{par}

There's a discussion in @p{(link}this thread@p{link)} of how likely it is that an attacker could "split the network" to successfully double-spend coins. @p{brk}