About 40 minutes ago, I noticed block 758119's timestamp is 5 minutes after block 758120. That means it was mined after block 758120.
I checked mempool.space and blockstream.info and both show this weird phenomenon.
How is this possible?
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About 40 minutes ago, I noticed block 758119's timestamp is 5 minutes after block 758120. That means it was mined after block 758120.
I checked mempool.space and blockstream.info and both show this weird phenomenon.
How is this possible?
This is why blocks also store a separate time stamp called "mediantime". The main "time" timestamp set by miners is allowed by consensus to drift within a certain window and still be valid. mempool.space displays the "time" of what miners set.
Got it. This is really helpful. Thank you
Computers don’t keep consistent time with each other. It’s a well known problem - clock drift. But it’s also likely some miners are using poor software/configurations that doesn’t mind time very well.
Got it that makes sense. Thank you!