Timeline for What stops miners/nodes lying about what time a block was mined?

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Jan 5, 2014 at 2:57	comment	added	user5107		What basis are they rejected, specifically? Do you have a code sample? Thank you so much in advance!
Oct 17, 2012 at 18:15	comment	added	David Schwartz		Miners collectively have a vested interest in keeping Bitcoins worth as much as possible. So the idea that miners would conspire to reduce the value of Bitcoins doesn't seem very likely to me.
Oct 17, 2012 at 9:32	comment	added	Stephen Gornick		51% or more of miners might collude to change timestamps, but my client still won't accept their blocks. So no, that isn't something the miners have control over.
Oct 17, 2012 at 7:32	comment	added	BitPiggy		Yep that sounds right. Interestingly, I think non-mining nodes could start accepting blocks with invalid timestamps, and not been penalized while +51% of miners are honest (the longest blockchain will consist of valid blocks). Then when some threshold of non-mining-nodes-accepting-invalid-timestamps is reached, +51% miners could start generating invalid timestamps. Far fetched I know, but interesting to think about. At the end of the day, I guess such an attack would undermine confidence in bitcoin, and thus the benefit of such an attack.
Oct 17, 2012 at 6:15	history	answered	ThePiachu	CC BY-SA 3.0