Live devnet v4: a second RTX 5090 joining 7 minutes into an epoch left the whole-epoch reference lane polluted for the hour; the short lane read 11 to 25% above it and the 25% trigger flipped between the two for 40 minutes (102M to 164M, 54 to 81 blocks a minute). Record and hash-rate truth under sim/difficulty/records/. sim.py gains a DAG model (miners on nodes with igneum-miner's template staleness, GHOSTDAG, the rule as the node runs it) and --live replay: std of log difficulty 0.115 against the record's 0.134, 4.3 peaks of 1.31x against 4 of 1.37x. The brief's candidates (short lane 240/360, ease clamp 3%, clamp once per DAA second, hysteresis, median of three) leave 0.09 to 0.13; capping the reference lane at the newest 600 blocks of the epoch gives 0.026 with no flips. Rule v2 = that cap, epoch lane only, behind difficulty_v2_activation_daa (devnet-v4 fork). Attack suite and synthetic set before and after, 3-node test network of the switch (testnet_v2.py), analysis document, spec 2.3, bench-log entry, ledger M24, fast-time file carries the new field.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Simulator harness over sim/difficulty/sim.py with multi-miner attribution and in-rule timestamp forging, a 3-node CPU test network (ports 27700+), results and bench-log entry. Timestamp stretching inside Kaspa's rules drops the Igneum block rate 34 to 88% (the per-step clamp cancels forged and honest pairs to zero time); proposed 10 s timestamp bounds plus a sanitised running clock in the chain steps (+0.7% to +1.1% drift at 50% in the simulator). Block flood underflows the 192-bit work after 4,142 blocks; a 2^128 target floor proposed. Rule not changed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
