l0k1 on Nostr: Consensus should have nothing to do with science, it's like a distributed system ...
Consensus should have nothing to do with science, it's like a distributed system having a consensus about the time. Ever heard of the Time Warp Attack? This is a form of exploit against a time consensus, caused by a vulnerability in the network time consensus. This is why Bitcoin doesn't have one, it just allows a couple of hours difference, and it can indeed allow non-monotonic timestamps on blocks. I personally think it will eventually be exploited.
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