📅 Original date posted:2011-11-23
🗒️ Summary of this message: Abandon target difficulty, nodes generate most difficult block possible. Listen for most difficult block generated before time T. Risk of cheating.
📝 Original message:2011/11/23, Andy Parkins <andyparkins at gmail.com>:
> Let's abandon the idea of a target difficulty. Instead, every node just
> generates the most difficulty block it can. Simultaneously, every node is
> listening for "the most difficult block generated before time T"; with T
> being
> picked to be the block generation rate (10 minutes).
A miner could try to obtain more difficulty out of time and cheat its
reported datetime (T).
Jorge Timón
Jorge Timón [ARCHIVE] /
npub1fx…cl2d8
2023-06-07 02:41:01
in reply to nevent1q…q99w
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npub1fx98zxt3lzspjs5f4msr0fxysx5euucm29ghysryju7vpc9j0jzqtcl2d8Published at
2023-06-07 02:41:01Event JSON
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