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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: SHA-256 (fixed: maybe) hacked, man gets away with 7 blocks in 10 minutes
by
nathanrees19
on 22/06/2011, 11:27:01 UTC


Proof is here. Clearly the system is broken. Image is from http://www.bitcoinmonitor.com/.

No.

I ran some quick numbers. If I'm correctly understanding the distribution, once the first block was found, the chance of finding the next 6 blocks in that time window was something like 0.0000002. However, this possibility has existed every time a block has been found. The chance of this streak happening at least once in 132000 or so blocks is greater than 99.7%. In fact, there is a very high chance that his has happened more than once. If I find the time, I could do an analysis of the whole block chain to see if this has happened before.

Is there an easy way to extract block timestamps from the chain?