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Documenting the timestamp for BIP-0030

Per the linked commit, this rule became active for blocks with timestamps after on March 15, 2012 at 00:00 UTC (February 20, 2012 at 00:00 UTC for testnet).
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airbreather 2014-03-09 17:28:18 -04:00
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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 is to be applied to all blocks whose timestamp is after March 15, 2012, 00:00 UTC (testnet: February 20, 2012 00:00 UTC).
==Rationale==
Whatever solution is used, the following law must be obeyed to guarantee sane behaviour: the set of usable