block.timestamp is not strictly ascending about ain HOT 2 CLOSED

The team has discussed only allowing blocks in the future before. This is doable and would also reduce the time range that stakers can use to generate new blocks. As seen in the past, reducing this range lowers difficulty and also reduces the number of empty blocks generated. Each new block opens up the entire range of time from the median of the last few blocks to 30 seconds ahead. To limit to future only blocks would reduce this range to the previous block time to 30 seconds ahead of the current time, this would be somewhere between 0 to 30 second.

Will create a PR for discussion, this would be part of the next hard fork if accepted.

from ain.

@Bushstar thx for the update. imho this would be a great improvement. could also affect blocktime stability due to less blockbursts -> lower difficutly -> more chance of more even block distribution (aka less likely that one block takes minutes)

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