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Why don't miners forge timstamps in order to decrease the difficulty?
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coinmachina
on 15/07/2017, 09:44:57 UTC
As far as I understand it the difficulty will be adjusted according to how long it took to generate a certain amount of blocks. The time the generation of these blocks took will be determined by the timestamps of the blocks.

My question now is: Why don't miners simply use wrong timestamps in order to exaggerate how long it took to generate the certain amount of blocks? So instead of putting the actual time into a block they simply take some date that is still in the future, e.g. one year from now. Then generating our certain amount of blocks did not take 2 weeks but more than one year.

As a consequence the difficulty would have to go down, wouldn't it?