> > > > [...] to generate much longer chain with superslow timestamp increase 
> > > > (~5 blocks in 1 second) without increasing difficulty (i.e. staying at 
> > > > min. diff.). [...]
> > > > In that case, it would take about 7 minutes of block time seconds for
> > > > the next retarget period, every 2016 blocks, and the difficulty would
> > > > adjust. The difficulty would adjust in that case as if 2 weeks of blocks
> > > > had been mined in 7 minutes. For the difficulty to remain the same the
> > > > time between blocks needs to be 10 minutes.
> > > > This calculation does not apply under time warp attack. You can fake 
> > > > timestamps of all blocks except for those relevant to the retarget 
> > > > calculation. Those are only the first and the last block in the 2016 
> > > > block window.
>
> This must be in reference to the non-overlapping difficulty calculation
> and off-by-one bug?

Indeed.

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