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From: "Joachim Strömbergson" <joachimstr@protonmail.com>
To: Braydon Fuller <braydon@purse.io>
Cc: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Chain width expansion
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 15:50:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <V_DCmFvCt-jxYr-fmfwy9JvDApaJWrBz9_QESEs85FkBjiq579w8SOSex7I_aJyL_cN2idZ3SuR9qt0Eer456GD6eV7BAlq0k9Em5JIOPmM=@protonmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7b0d0bff-d898-10ff-5fdb-c982b82054a1@purse.io>


> > > > [...] to generate much longer chain with superslow timestamp increase (~5 blocks in 1 second) without increasing difficulty (i.e. staying at min. diff.). [...]
> > > > In that case, it would take about 7 minutes of block time seconds for
> > > > the next retarget period, every 2016 blocks, and the difficulty would
> > > > adjust. The difficulty would adjust in that case as if 2 weeks of blocks
> > > > had been mined in 7 minutes. For the difficulty to remain the same the
> > > > time between blocks needs to be 10 minutes.
> > > > This calculation does not apply under time warp attack. You can fake timestamps of all blocks except for those relevant to the retarget calculation. Those are only the first and the last block in the 2016 block window.
>
> This must be in reference to the non-overlapping difficulty calculation
> and off-by-one bug?

Indeed.



  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-15 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-04  0:38 [bitcoin-dev] Chain width expansion Braydon Fuller
2019-10-04  8:20 ` David A. Harding
2019-10-04 19:51   ` Braydon Fuller
2019-10-11 21:24   ` Braydon Fuller
2019-10-04 23:31 ` Tier Nolan
2019-10-10 16:16   ` Braydon Fuller
2019-10-12 16:27     ` Tier Nolan
2019-10-12 17:56       ` Joachim Strömbergson
2019-10-12 20:46         ` Tier Nolan
2019-10-16 19:07           ` Braydon Fuller
2019-10-15  0:42         ` Braydon Fuller
2019-10-15  7:20           ` Joachim Strömbergson
2019-10-15  8:12             ` Braydon Fuller
2019-10-15 15:50               ` Joachim Strömbergson [this message]
2019-10-16 19:25                 ` Braydon Fuller
2019-10-15 18:30           ` Tier Nolan
2019-10-15  0:38       ` Braydon Fuller

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