Proof of Work and the Time Chain

The difficulty of finding a new block becomes such that, based on the last two weeks, the next two weeks should average every ten minutes. Each block right now, six and a quarter new bit coins are minted. If that were accelerated, we'd be pulling the inflation of bicoin into the present. But cause we have this time governor of the difficulty adjustment in the code, we are able to rely on bit coin as a time chain. Soid so it keeps inflation intact in the correct a at the time frame it's supposed to be in. Is, in a assence, what it does exactly. And it's entirely obsessed with this other idea n in proof of work

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