Less than 5 mins?
3 mins.
What do you think happened?
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I found this which explains it pretty well:
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/915/why-dont-the-timestamps-in-the-block-chain-always-increase#917
I liked the explanation of a miner incrementing the time to re-use nonces already tried.
I'm going to keep an eye out for it now.
I found that interesting too. I didn't realize you could run out of nonces!
Order via PoW matters, unix timestamps don't. As long as the clocks that determine wall time are roughly accurate it's good enough.
https://dergigi.com/threads/physical-limits
https://twitter.com/dergigi/status/1372586862838157312