<p>It seems like that's the case... I mined a min-difficulty block only 13 min after the previous block(only for testnet).</p>

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Rod Lin
<p>I heard about this "special difficulty rule" for testnet, which allows blocks with timestamp 20 min later than the last block to have the min difficulty target.</p>

<p>So does it mean that the miners can simply declare that their block has such timestamp without actually waiting for 20 minutes?</p>

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Special min difficulty rule for testnet
Rod Lin
# Special min difficulty rule for testnet

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-05-12)

I heard about this "special difficulty rule" for testnet, which allows blocks with timestamp 20 min later than the last block to have the min difficulty target.

So does it mean that the miners can simply declare that their block has such timestamp without actually waiting for 20 minutes?

**Tags:** difficulty, testnet


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_0 on 2018-05-13. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

It seems like that's the case... I mined a min-difficulty block only 13 min after the previous block(only for testnet).


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