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From: Vladimir Marchenko <vladimir@marchenko.co.uk>
To: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Difficulty adjustment / time issues
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:15:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACv5nHK1t-R1Ug0Je7W+t2JM8Z=Nc6Mq+K0jjyi0bGVJjaR-jA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABsx9T2XLj4gZVPYodteaVCm0chR1n4WLUoSqB6+NnmWCDqHKQ@mail.gmail.com>

> 2) Bitcoin's "what time is it" code is kind of a hack.
...
> Fixing (2) is easier; incorporating a ntp library and/or simply
> removing the bitcoin mining code from the client but requiring pools
> and miners to have accurate-to-within-a-minute system clocks (or their
> blocks will be "discouraged") seems reasonable to me. If you want to
> produce blocks that the rest of the network will accept, run ntp on
> your system.
...
> --
> Gavin Andresen
>

As a miner I fully support route (2) and do not think that this would
cause any serious issues or discontent among miners. Most miners
surely are running ntpd already. Those who mess with the clock
intentionally will have to play ball.

--
Vladimir
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-13 15:15 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 [this message]
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
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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