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> In verge's case, both are identical, at 2 hours. Naive question - is verge adjustment window defined in block time (as opposed to "human" time)? because > B
by gtrubetskoy 8y ago
> In verge's case, both are identical, at 2 hours.
Naive question - is verge adjustment window defined in block time (as opposed to "human" time)? because
> Bitcoin allows a 2 hour drift, but has an adjustment window of 2 weeks.
The adjustment window is technically 2016 blocks, which is about two weeks in human time, but can in theory vary greatly if mining capacity fluctuates.
- tromp 8y agoI went looking through the source code and found that the adjustment window is indeed defined in block time as PastBlocksMax = 12 while nProofOfWorkTargetSpacing = 150 (half a minute for each of 5 different pow algorithms), giving an expected adjustment window of 12 * 150 = 1800 seconds. Apparently, the adjustment window, which needs to be way longer than the allowed timestamp drift, is in fact way shorter...