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Why Is It Taking 20 Minutes to Mine This Bitcoin Block?
You have just made a Bitcoin transaction and you are eager to see if it appears in the next block. You know that the expected time between Bitcoin blocks is 10 minutes. You check the log of your Bitcoin node. It has been 7 minutes since the previous block. You recall that blocks occurrences in Bitcoin are a Poisson…
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Crypto & BlockchainSystems & Performance2018
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 2018 | Why Is It Taking 20 Minutes to Mine This Bitcoin Block? by CyrusL | 258 | 113 |
