On Wednesday, September 14, 2011 10:45:36 AM Gavin Andresen wrote: > The block timestamp rules currently give HOURS of wiggle-room for > timestamps. We can't change those rules without risking a chain split.
And those hours of wiggle-room are not enough to cause a problem. The problem only comes in (AFAIK) when the existing rules are *not* enforced. > Assuming a majority of pools/miners adopt the "discourage blocks with > stale timestamps" rule, that should squash any incentive for cartels > to try to start playing with difficulty-- you would have to have 50+% > power to start, or you risk producing mostly orphan blocks. As this is against pools/miners' interests, and doesn't seem to solve any real problems, I'm going to discourage its adoption if it ever gets done. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA Learn about the latest advances in developing for the BlackBerry® mobile platform with sessions, labs & more. See new tools and technologies. Register for BlackBerry® DevCon today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy1 _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
