-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Peter Todd <p...@petertodd.org> wrote: > Who knows? > > Satoshi used 32-bits and those fields can't be changed now without every > single Bitcoin user changing all at once. (a "hard-fork" change) > > We'll probably need to do one of those eventually for other reasons, so > we might as well leave fixing the timestamps until then.
Perhaps Satoshi did this delibrately, knowing that at some point a hard-fork would be a good idea, so that we all would have a good excuse to do one? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJRivT1AAoJEEWCsU4mNhiPhxUH/271jtMvNrliZxFTvud282Dc snEieMig1p/HXy6ry1YLp+Q2k4Ya3QFFPlbsqHeTjL+NaJSGOHPBen4lpWahOH+T N6TQoOls7BMpQ7Y54Nqy5Qh9GeQnbDGcbQ8fBUfFqAF1Ljs0OBsbJtvC3vZTbYEn dwB+7dvPLGKVfz/yrR9wrLhDzoXHbG4C3sefqNnm+fkHHIuTy4nxwtVVMydlzerF Bwg1oc64dlul7sugBGXo2FjtGrxxkRxWWqj+dPgBnE/bDKIlemw34PtQZ2OK+IUS CH7Q0EGBnr7TpXJT5AOMkycd8v9MJ2wNIt4v3YLqyViQ48Q5coxAS0GepcRnbMU= =na4H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development