539 sats \ 0 replies \ @nerd2ninja 4 Dec 2023 \ on: Jaromil's Article "Bitcoin, The End Of The Taboo On Money" bitcoin
That's what it does ;_;
Its just so....this isn't the first time I've had to explain that proof of work keeps track of time and to keep track of time without a proof of work mechanism is asking for abuse. You can't know how much internet latency was involved before you received a transaction from your peers (which is why first seen policy in the mempool is silly in practice), but if you adjust the proof of work needed to keep on track for 10 minutes per block and you know it will take exponentially more computing power with every passing block to rebuild a valid chain, then you have a reliable way to keep track of time with no way for timestamps to be faked (in a meaningful way)