Thank you hashman and RaTTuS for your clarification!
Topic: Block #273374 OLDER than block #273373 ? How is it possible??? (Read 879 times)
December 06, 2013, 08:02:02 AM
It's happened before. The timestamp is not so important on a scale of block to block, in this case there is clearly a small error in the timestamp because the miner of block 273374 clearly had in hand block 273373 as she included hash of it in her block. Timestamps become important when it is time to set difficulty, which is why we wait two weeks to adjust the difficulty.. these kind of small errors go out in the wash.
December 06, 2013, 07:40:58 AM
down to the clock on the block owners machine ...
December 06, 2013, 07:37:54 AM
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