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Documenting the timestamp for BIP-0030
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gavinandresen committed Mar 18, 2014
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To counter this problem, the following network rule is introduced:
*Blocks are not allowed to contain a transaction whose identifier matches that of an earlier, not-fully-spent transaction in the same chain.
This rule is to be applied to all blocks whose timestamp is after a point in time that is yet to be decided.
This rule initially applied to all blocks whose timestamp is after March 15, 2012, 00:00 UTC (testnet: February 20, 2012 00:00 UTC). It was later extended by Commit [https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/ab91bf39b7c11e9c86bb2043c24f0f377f1cf514 Apply BIP30 checks to all blocks except the two historic violations.] to apply to all blocks except the two historic blocks at heights 91842 and 91880 on the main chain that had to be grandfathered in.

==Rationale==
Whatever solution is used, the following law must be obeyed to guarantee sane behaviour: the set of usable
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