Bitcoin Mailing List on Nostr: 🔖 Title: Difficulty adjustment / time issues 🏷️ Categories: ...

🔖 Title: Difficulty adjustment / time issues
🏷️ Categories: Bitcoin-development
👥 Authors:
• John Smith ( John Smith [ARCHIVE] (npub1e4l…jafl) )
• Vladimir Marchenko ( Vladimir Marchenko [ARCHIVE] (npub1yad…362l) )
• Luke-Jr ( Luke-Jr [ARCHIVE] (npub1dtr…7wrs) )
• kjj ( kjj [ARCHIVE] (npub1t9t…6cf0) )
• Aidan Thornton ( Aidan Thornton [ARCHIVE] (npub18ra…a0jy) )
• Alex Waters ( Alex Waters [ARCHIVE] (npub12tt…f5r2) )
• theymos ( theymos [ARCHIVE] (npub10vt…per0) )
• Gregory Maxwell ( Gregory Maxwell [ARCHIVE] (npub1f2n…rwet) )
• Gavin Andresen ( Gavin Andresen [ARCHIVE] (npub1s4l…44kw) )
• Christian Decker ( Christian Decker [ARCHIVE] (npub1wtx…tuyn) )
🗒️ Conversation Summary: Experts discuss Bitcoin's vulnerability to timestamp manipulation, with suggestions including incorporating an NTP library, removing mining code, and enforcing rules to discourage blocks with stale timestamps. However, changing block timestamp rules could cause a chain split, and forking changes should only be introduced when necessary. Accurate time is important for discouraging blocks, and periodic upgrades are necessary for network health and user security.
📅 Messages Date Range: 2011-09-13 to 2011-09-14
✉️ Message Count: 16
📚 Total Characters in Messages: 18054