From: Tom Harding <tomh@thinlink•com>
To: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org>,
Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Interpreting nTime for the purpose of Bitcoin-attested timestamps
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 12:53:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b70ab80f-2a9a-2d6e-00c7-6d281e514778@thinlink.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160919175615.GA6360@fedora-21-dvm>
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On 9/19/2016 10:56 AM, Peter Todd wrote:
> I should state that assumption more clearly.
Glad to get you thinking, and I need to change my suggestion. The
catch-up formula is not applicable because it doesn't limit how long the
dishonest miners have to catch up.
Instead you want the probability that the honest miners can build a
chain N blocks long before the dishonest miners do the same, which is
CDF[Erlang(N, q) - Erlang(N, 1 - q), 0]
I have some apparatus for doing this numerically without simulation if
you're interested.
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2016-09-18 4:20 Peter Todd
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2016-09-18 16:05 ` Peter Todd
2016-09-19 16:13 ` Tom Harding
2016-09-19 17:56 ` Peter Todd
2016-09-19 19:53 ` Tom Harding [this message]
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