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Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Language: en-US X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on smtp1.linux-foundation.org X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 15:54:56 +0000 Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Chain width expansion X-BeenThere: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 08:12:13 -0000 On 10/15/19 12:20 AM, Joachim Str=C3=B6mbergson wrote: >>> [...] to generate much longer chain with superslow timestamp increase= (~5 blocks in 1 second) without increasing difficulty (i.e. staying at m= in. 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 bloc= ks >> 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 ti= mestamps of all blocks except for those relevant to the retarget calculat= ion. Those are only the first and the last block in the 2016 block window= =2E This must be in reference to the non-overlapping difficulty calculation and off-by-one bug?