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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Fake block timestamps can cause a temporary fork?
by
Gavin Andresen
on 19/01/2015, 23:12:00 UTC
Why would a miner want only half the network to build on their block?

That makes no sense... what is the +2hr timestamp miner trying to accomplish?


It would create a temporary fork and perhaps some confusion. Maybe even break some badly coded bitcoin applications if they do not handle forks well.

No, it really wouldn't, any more than a business-as-usual temporary blockchain race/fork creates confusion or breaks applications. Like the one-block fork we had today.