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Other => Beginners & Help => Topic started by: saooesnamax on August 31, 2018, 02:26:02 PM



Title: bitcoin block mining
Post by: saooesnamax on August 31, 2018, 02:26:02 PM
We all know
It is mining 1 block every 10 minutes
In bitcoin

but in this page
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/blocks

we will find
539313 (Main Chain)    2018-08-31 09:27:12
539314 (Main Chain)    2018-08-31 09:29:08

between this 2 block is 2 minutes only
how ???


Title: Re: bitcoin block mining
Post by: fanatic26_ on August 31, 2018, 03:50:01 PM
I think you are slightly confused. The protol tries to keep the AVERAGE block discovery time around 10 minutes. It is never actually 10 minutes which is what the difficulty adjustment tries to adjust.

Current block generation times:

Block Generation Time(?):    
1 block: 9.3 minutes
3 blocks: 27.8 minutes
6 blocks: 55.6 minutes

Sometimes they are found back to back, sometimes there is a long delay

539338 (Main Chain)    2018-08-31 13:18:54    F2Pool    0000000000000000002624d50d7aa8c3f80a44c3844dbc9c9f5c987cdacebb1f    1,045.35
539337 (Main Chain)    2018-08-31 12:45:07    AntPool    000000000000000000109f3ec2981e3ef6a34116716b1687a70b065af393098b    54.15

32 minutes in between the ones listed above.