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Roland Kofler
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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 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?

Roland Kofler
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