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From: "Luke-Jr" <luke@dashjr.org>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: kjj <kjj@jerviss.org>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Difficulty adjustment / time issues
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:43:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201109141143.24165.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABsx9T0JvnOaBy+irHtnN1zMWP8FiDTn=kn-01ky+V2MW1suTg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wednesday, September 14, 2011 10:45:36 AM Gavin Andresen wrote:
> The block timestamp rules currently give HOURS of wiggle-room for
> timestamps. We can't change those rules without risking a chain split.

And those hours of wiggle-room are not enough to cause a problem.
The problem only comes in (AFAIK) when the existing rules are *not* enforced.

> Assuming a majority of pools/miners adopt the "discourage blocks with
> stale timestamps" rule, that should squash any incentive for cartels
> to try to start playing with difficulty-- you would have to have 50+%
> power to start, or you risk producing mostly orphan blocks.

As this is against pools/miners' interests, and doesn't seem to solve any real 
problems, I'm going to discourage its adoption if it ever gets done.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-14 15:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-13 15:06 [Bitcoin-development] Difficulty adjustment / time issues Gavin Andresen
2011-09-13 15:15 ` Vladimir Marchenko
2011-09-13 15:54 ` John Smith
2011-09-13 16:24 ` kjj
2011-09-14 14:45   ` Gavin Andresen
2011-09-14 15:43     ` Luke-Jr [this message]
2011-09-14 16:06       ` Christian Decker
2011-09-14 19:52     ` Aidan Thornton
2011-09-14 20:09       ` Gregory Maxwell
2011-09-14 20:28         ` Gavin Andresen
2011-09-14 21:36           ` Alex Waters
2011-09-14 21:51             ` Gregory Maxwell
2011-09-14 22:07               ` theymos
2011-09-14 23:01         ` Luke-Jr
2011-09-13 16:48 ` Luke-Jr
2011-09-14 21:45 ` theymos
2011-11-07 15:02 ` Pieter Wuille
2011-11-07 15:27   ` Luke-Jr
2011-11-07 15:43     ` Pieter Wuille

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