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Re: Blockchain every 10 min?
by
o_e_l_e_o
on 02/08/2022, 13:11:12 UTC
⭐ Merited by BlackHatCoiner (4)
We know that the block's timestamp has to be less than the median time of the last 11 blocks plus 2 hours.

That's not quite right. A block's timestamp has to fall within a range bounded by the median timestamp of the last 11 blocks (plus one second) in the past, to up to 2 hours in the future based on adjusted network time. If the future limit was median time of the last 11 blocks plus 2 hours, as you stated, then we would frequently run in to the problem of miners having fake timestamps, since any time it took more than an hour to find a block we would be outside of that window.

If the 99% of the hash rate disappeared, the difficulty would drop by 25%
It would drop to 25%. It would drop by 75%.