I joined in on bitcoin 1 month ago so forgive me if my terminology is incorrect or if I am not clear enough.
My question is, are replay attacks initiated my an "attacker"? Meaning that the unwanted transaction does not happen automatically and accidentally, it is manually replicated on the unintended chain however way it is done, which I am clueless of.
If it is done by an attacker, let's say I had bitcoin on a wallet (1) before a fork happened, and after it happened, I transferred my bitcoin to a new wallet (2), this transaction will not be replayed as the receiving address is also mine. Then I will be able to safely claim or spend my forked coin on wallet 1 because it does not have any bitcoin in it, right?
Thanks in advance.