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On Thursday, October 13, 2011 9:32:48 AM Gavin Andresen wrote:
> =95 Tighten up block-time rules to fix the potential "timejacking" attack.

Once again, this does not fix anything (they're already strict enough for t=
he=20
2-week window), and just creates new problems.

> =95 Work on 'discouraging' blocks/transactions to punish
> bad-for-the-common-good-but-good-for-me behaviors from miners or
> nodes.

=46lawed concept. Only even potentially useful for extreme cases (ie, a min=
er=20
intentionally making lots of 1 MB blocks of junk).