By the way, Jameson Lopp (npub17u5…t4tp) , you say that a fix would require a hard fork. Is that a common belief?
A simple soft fork* would be to require that the last block in a difficulty adjustment period has a timestamp no greater than 20 minutes after the previous block.
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* A soft fork in the sense that it only restricts consensus rules. Miners that don't implement the change might get their block invalidated by this. But such a block would be a difficulty-1 block, so no big deal.
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2023-02-22 17:33:14
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