Zawy’s Alternating Timestamp Attack

Okay, I had understood you to mean that enforcing an FTL was already sufficient to enforce a PTL, but as you write, it would just cause honest miners to adhere to a PTL in effect.

I gather now that your suggestion would be to

  • Enforce a 2h FTL
  • Enforce that no block may be dated older than 2h before any of its predecessors’ timestamps

I see how that would prevent both the timewarp attack and your attack, and would be simpler than the MTP rule, and would lead to a similar outcome as the current rules for honest participants.

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