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On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 02:33:11AM +0000, John Dillon wrote:
> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 1:57 AM, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org> wrote:
> > Remember that interpreting the timestamp on a block for the purposes of
> > timestamping is a lot more subtle than it appears at first.
>=20
> I actually just meant how Pieter Wuille was talking about a blocktime acc=
urate
> to only within 18 hours. :) But it is a nice writeup!
>=20
> In any case, for many things simple relative ordering is enough rather th=
an
> absolute time.
Ah, shoot, I just realized we both got missed Pieter's point entirely:
he means to change the meaning of the header timestamp to be relative
time passed since the last block...
Well, it was a nice writeup! Thanks for the correction re:
probabalistic; you are absolutely correct.
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