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?
6 sats \ 1 reply \ @softsimon 11 Oct 2022
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.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @buddylasta OP 11 Oct 2022
Got it. This is really helpful. Thank you
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6 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 11 Oct 2022
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.
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @buddylasta OP 11 Oct 2022
Got it that makes sense. Thank you!
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