Given that I am connected to the network with at least one peer, can I be sure that a transaction I sent will be executed (either with fail or success)? Is there a possibility that it will never make it to the blockchain, so that the sender will not spend anything? What if it was included in some block, but then the block gets orphaned? Will my transaction be "removed"?
If there is such a possibility, how to deal with it? Given that I record the TxHash
, can/should I check it regularly, and if it still does not exist after a "big" number of blocks, alert the user that their transaction is not executed and they should send it again? This solution looks like it's prone to double spending. Also, from this answer I understand that a transaction can disappear and reappear much later, so the "big" amount of blocks to wait is indefinite. So how can I make sure that a transaction is included in the blockchain?
Thanks