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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Discouraging "Selfish" mining
by
gmaxwell
on 10/11/2013, 21:55:02 UTC
For block-height ties, prefer the block whose locally-observed arrival time is closest to its internal timestamp.
Creates big incentives to screw with the subsecond accuracy of the network times. Has the anti-convergence property where if a first block is announced with a bad time you can keep trying instead of moving forward and you'll be sure to replace it unless you end up with a race with a child of it.