On 2011 November 23 Wednesday, Jorge Timón wrote: > 2011/11/23, Andy Parkins <andypark...@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).
Just as with the current system. The defence is that on receipt of a block, its timestamp is checked against the node's own clock and averaged network clock. Blocks out of that band are rejected. Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins andypark...@gmail.com
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