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Given that:

  1. According to the white and yellow paper a block's timestamp must be bigger than the parent's.
  2. According to the white paper a block's timestamp can be within 15 min of the parent blocktimeblock's timestamp can be within 15 min of the parent blocktime.

Would that imply that if a differential block time of 14 min occurs,

  1. the next winning miner has to either fake a timestamp, and this potentially could lead to the blockchain running faster and faster into the future,
  2. or wait until his Unix time catches up.

Is this true? Is there a reason why empirically it never happened?

Given that:

  1. According to the white and yellow paper a block's timestamp must be bigger than the parent's.
  2. According to the white paper a block's timestamp can be within 15 min of the parent blocktime.

Would that imply that if a differential block time of 14 min occurs,

  1. the next winning miner has to either fake a timestamp, and this potentially could lead to the blockchain running faster and faster into the future,
  2. or wait until his Unix time catches up.

Is this true? Is there a reason why empirically it never happened?

Given that:

  1. According to the white and yellow paper a block's timestamp must be bigger than the parent's.
  2. According to the white paper a block's timestamp can be within 15 min of the parent blocktime.

Would that imply that if a differential block time of 14 min occurs,

  1. the next winning miner has to either fake a timestamp, and this potentially could lead to the blockchain running faster and faster into the future,
  2. or wait until his Unix time catches up.

Is this true? Is there a reason why empirically it never happened?

error my gosh
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Given that:

  1. According to the white and yellow paper a block's timestamp must be bigger thenthan the parent's.
  2. According to the white paper a block's timestamp can be within 2 hours15 min of the parent blocktime.

Would that imply that if a differential block time of 1 h 5914 min occoursoccurs,

  1. the next winning miner has to either fake a timestamp, and this potentially could lead to the blockchain running faster and faster into the future,
  2. or wait until his unixUnix time catches up.

Is this true? Is there a reason why empirically it never happened?

Given that:

  1. According to the white and yellow paper a block's timestamp must be bigger then the parent's.
  2. According to the white paper a block's timestamp can be within 2 hours of the parent blocktime.

Would that imply that if a differential block time of 1 h 59 min occours,

  1. the next winning miner has to either fake a timestamp, and this potentially could lead to the blockchain running faster and faster into the future,
  2. or wait until his unix time catches up.

Is this true? Is there a reason why empirically it never happened?

Given that:

  1. According to the white and yellow paper a block's timestamp must be bigger than the parent's.
  2. According to the white paper a block's timestamp can be within 15 min of the parent blocktime.

Would that imply that if a differential block time of 14 min occurs,

  1. the next winning miner has to either fake a timestamp, and this potentially could lead to the blockchain running faster and faster into the future,
  2. or wait until his Unix time catches up.

Is this true? Is there a reason why empirically it never happened?

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How would a miner cope with a huge block time?

Given that:

  1. According to the white and yellow paper a block's timestamp must be bigger then the parent's.
  2. According to the white paper a block's timestamp can be within 2 hours of the parent blocktime.

Would that imply that if a differential block time of 1 h 59 min occours,

  1. the next winning miner has to either fake a 1s block timetimestamp, and this potentially could lead to the blockchain running faster and faster into the future,
  2. or wait until his unix time catches up.

Is this true? Is there a reason why empirically it never happened?

How would a miner cope with a huge block time

Given that:

  1. According to the white and yellow paper a block's timestamp must be bigger then the parent's.
  2. According to the white paper a block's timestamp can be within 2 hours of the parent blocktime.

Would that imply that if a differential block time of 1 h 59 min occours,

  1. the next miner has to either fake a 1s block time,
  2. or wait until his unix time catches up

Is this true? Is there a reason why empirically it never happened?

How would a miner cope with a huge block time?

Given that:

  1. According to the white and yellow paper a block's timestamp must be bigger then the parent's.
  2. According to the white paper a block's timestamp can be within 2 hours of the parent blocktime.

Would that imply that if a differential block time of 1 h 59 min occours,

  1. the next winning miner has to either fake a timestamp, and this potentially could lead to the blockchain running faster and faster into the future,
  2. or wait until his unix time catches up.

Is this true? Is there a reason why empirically it never happened?

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Roland Kofler
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