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Accuracy of Bitcoin Timestamps

An interesting thread was started by Neiman via bitcoin-dev regarding the accuracy of Bitcoin block timestamps.

I’m doing a research project about blockchain timestamping. There are many such projects, including the fantastic OpenTimestamps.

I didn’t find any discussion or research regarding Bitcoin timestamp accuracy (also not in the history of this mailing list). I share here a simple analysis of timestamp accuracy, and a suggestion how to improve it.