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(Realtime) Monitoring of median-past-time drift #6

Open 0xB10C opened 1 month ago

0xB10C commented 1 month ago

On testnet4, some drift of the median past time has been observed as people try to CPU mine by setting their clock into the future (difficulty resets after 20 minutes). Monitoring this on mainnet and especially test networks seems to be interesting.

Some analysis based on https://github.com/bitcoin-data/block-arrival-times data can be found here.

https://gist.github.com/0xB10C/718585922f397d791832ad60fc2a65da

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I've also looked at testnet4 drifts with the (limited) data available in https://github.com/bitcoin-data/block-arrival-times-testnet4.

https://gist.github.com/0xB10C/ce81b765ed2ac5e5c562f419e8f1b140

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