On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 10:54 PM, Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 9:40 PM, Tier Nolan via bitcoin-dev
> wrote:
>
> if there were tighter time requirements in the protocol
> miners would address them by running NTP which as
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 10:40 PM, Tier Nolan via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> Much of Bitcoin operates on the assumption that a majority of miners are
> honest. If 50%+ of miners set their timestamp reasonably accurately (say
> within 10 mins), then the actual t
First time posting here, please be gentle.
I'm doing a research project about blockchain timestamping. There are many
such projects, including the fantastic OpenTimestamps.
All of the projects essentially save some data in a block, and rely on the
block timestamp as a proof that this data existed
