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The recalculation window is substantially larger than the permitted clock drift window, so it would take a large number of consistently malicious actors to affe
by api 9y ago
The recalculation window is substantially larger than the permitted clock drift window, so it would take a large number of consistently malicious actors to affect difficulty. Even then all you'd get is a difficulty adjustment, so it's not a catastrophic attack.
- rocqua 9y agoIs there a way to use clock drift to exclude certain miners? That is, change the time-stamp in such a way that honest miners using an actual time-stamp might get their blocks denied?
- gruez 9y agoyou can already exclude certain miners by not building ontop of their blocks.
- jacobush 9y agoYes, but that shut the question down. There may be interesting nuances left to discover. If we do as you suggested, we would actively "attack" certain miners, quite openly. With a time shift, could miners collude to increase the burden on other miners not privy to the collusion? Perhaps ever so slightly?