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On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 09:54:23PM +0000, Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev w=
rote:
> If times need to be accurate Bitcoin would need to use a rather
> different design (e.g. each block would commit to the observation time
> of the prior N blocks, and an iterative algorithm would solve for each
> blocks time and each miners local offset).
>=20
> IIRC open-timestamp calendar servers provide more precise
> time-stamping under the assumption that the calendar server is
> behaving correctly.
That is incorrect. The OpenTimestamps servers are specifically designed not=
to
be trusted, and thus do not make any cryptographically verifiable attestati=
ons
as to when timestamps were created.
In the future I expect to add a trusted timestamping scheme via disposable =
keys
to the OpenTimestamps protocol, but that work isn't yet complete:
https://lists.opentimestamps.org/pipermail/ots-dev/2017-May/000001.html
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