# Gavin Andresen
# 2011-10-03 14:10:15
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=46498.msg555518#msg555518

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 @p{brk}
First: sorry for conflating the off-by-1 and the asymmetric adjustment issues.  As I said, I haven't taken the time to consider changing the bitcoin difficulty adjustment algorithm (too big a change for too little benefit, in my opinion; if we lose 90% of hashing power in a month then there that is a sign something much more serious is wrong with bitcoin than the difficulty algorithm; speculation on what will happen when the block reward drops seems pointless to me, I don't think we'll know until it happens). @p{par}

Second: I've written 'discourage blocks' infrastructure: @p{brk}
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  (code reviews welcome) @p{par}

... which should give us the ability to nudge miners to Do The Right Thing.  Discouraging blocks that appear to be gaming the off-by-one bug should be enough incentive to prevent 50+% cartels from forming, without requiring a blockchain-splitting change.