Questions concerned with the expected or actual time between the discovery of two blocks.
Questions tagged [block-interval]
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What is the largest number of blocks that have ever occurred in 1 hour?
I have see questions about the longest delay between blocks and am aware of some blocks that occur in short succession. However I rarely see many blocks occurring very close to each other (which I suppose is normal since the average time between…
Jun Li
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Why not implement GHOST in bitcoin?
GHOST can provide higher transaction throughput by minimized block interval, but community people seldom mention it. What's wrong with GHOST?
Anderson
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Probability that a block will be confirmed in x minutes
I know that a block usually takes 10 minutes on average to get confirmed. But what is the probability that this will happen?
I mean is there any formula that we can use to calculate the probability that a block will be confirmed in the bitcoin…
Mije
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Is it possible to reduce the block interval in the future?
Is it possible in future to reduce the confirmation time of the transactions? Can it somehow be reduced to less than 10 minutes? Can it be made faster?
Rashul Gupta
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Reducing block generation time
Is there any drawback to reducing the time it takes to generate POW, essentially reducing block generation time and confirming transactions faster.
What if the difficulty is reduced so that the POW can be generated/mined in within a minute - in…
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