Increase the network speed vs block size without a fork - Posible ?

cryptotipz

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Quote from: knolix on June 07, 2015, 12:43:56 PM

Is it posible to make every block faster then 10 minutes without forking bitcoin ?

If posible how would that work out ?

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It's really not possible or even likely for that matter unless the entire community is desperate and if it becomes a point of do or die.

johoe

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Quote from: knolix on June 07, 2015, 01:30:34 PM

I think most software rely on a clock and if you trick the clock 10 minutes runs faster it might work without changing the protocol, but the miners must agree on the speed.

I might be wrong but maybe it's worth considering

It's a hard fork. The full nodes that don't play with their clock won't accept the blocks because their timestamp is in the future.

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Quote from: knolix on June 07, 2015, 01:30:34 PM

I think most software rely on a clock and if you trick the clock 10 minutes runs faster it might work without changing the protocol, but the miners must agree on the speed.

I might be wrong but maybe it's worth considering

Best Regards

The mining is not based on the clock, it is based on the difficulty. The difficulty is based upon the amount of time it took to generate 2016 blocks, and the target is to have blocks be created around every 10 minutes. The calculation is some thing hard coded into the protocol. Changing the calculation might require a hard fork because some miners would calculate the difficulty differently and generate possibly invalid blocks.

knolix