Question Re: Block Size and Time

[Mikestang]

There are a myriad of alt coins with varying lengths of time to solve blocks.  Bitcoin's time is 10 minutes, it's part of its backbone coding, it's not going to change.

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[virtualx]

There are a myriad of alt coins with varying lengths of time to solve blocks.  Bitcoin's time is 10 minutes, it's part of its backbone coding, it's not going to change.

Edit - Related article: https://medium.com/@octskyward/the-capacity-cliff-586d1bf7715e

You are right, but for the newbies: It's 10 minutes on average, the time to confirm may change. Be it 10 minutes, 15 minutes.. If the transaction time would be very short the confirmations would become meaningless