Quote from: Gavin Andresen on January 19, 2015, 11:12:00 PM

Quote from: doge94 on January 17, 2015, 11:05:35 PM

Quote from: Gavin Andresen on January 17, 2015, 09:59:06 PM

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.

I wonder if this report is only orphaned blocks that blockchain's nodes had to abandon, or if they are receiving external data to augment this.