Pseudonymous bitcoin miner by the name of artforz was able to unfairly benefit from mining over 1000 blocks quickly by taking advantage of a flaw in the timestamp server of the bitcoin network in 2010

Centralized service called the timestamp server is used to confirm the time that blocks are mined. In order to appear as though he discovered mined blocks sooner than other people artforz manipulated the timestamps on them by taking use of a flaw in the timestamp server. Because of this trickery Read more…