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Add warning about re-using reaped accounts

laboon opened this issue · comments

https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/learn-accounts#existential-deposit-and-reaping

A re-activated reaped account is vulnerable to replay attacks, since it resets the nonce. We should add a warning to this section.

It's worth mentioning that this affects immortal extrinsics almost exclusively. Mortal transactions expire, so it's very unlikely that they're replayed.