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The Time Warp: How Lying About the Time Could Break Bitcoin's Difficulty

r/Bitcoin/u/LearnBitcoinCom9h ago7/10

Explains the Bitcoin time warp weakness in difficulty adjustment, where a majority miner can distort retargeting by timestamp manipulation.

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