lnresearch / topology

Data about the past and current structure of the Lightning Network
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future timestamps #24

Open m-pescador opened 1 year ago

m-pescador commented 1 year ago

timemachine.py relies on the assumption that the timestamps are UNIX timestamps. However BOLT 7 only requires that they must strictly increasing ( for a certain node ). It suggests that the node may base it on a UNIX timestamp but doesn’t require it. The last 2 datasets ( I didn’t check the other ones ) contain messages with timestamps from 2030 so those are obviously not UNIX timestamps but it seems there are many more that are not.