How does Kaspa stop miners from manipulating block difficulty?

Kaspa's DAA Score uses block count rather than miner-reported timestamps for timing decisions, so miners cannot skew difficulty by faking the time. In many blockchains, a miner can lie about when a block was found — reporting a false timestamp to make the network think blocks are arriving slower or faster than they really are, nudging the difficulty down or up in their favor. Kaspa closes this loophole through the Blue Score dependency: the timing mechanism is tied to actual Network Consensus State, meaning it reflects what the whole network genuinely agreed happened, not what any individual miner claimed. For a beginner, this means the rules governing how hard mining is cannot be gamed by a single bad actor — the difficulty stays fair because it is anchored to real network activity.

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