[bitcoin-dev] How accurate are the Bitcoin timestamps?

Neiman neiman.mail at gmail.com
Tue Jan 30 10:53:41 UTC 2018


On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 10:54 PM, Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 9:40 PM, Tier Nolan via bitcoin-dev
> <bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
>  if there were tighter time requirements in the protocol
> miners would address them by running NTP which as an _astounding_ lack
> of security in terms of how it is commonly deployed.
>

Could you say a few more words about this lack of security? Or share a link
if you have one. I know very little about NTPs.


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