Two blocks mined with only 2 seconds apart!

[aplistir]

Wow.
This has to be a new record?

Blocks 499795 and 499796 were mined with only 2 seconds between them !
Is the difficulty level too low?

https://blockchain.info/block/0000000000000000009df979d54bbe255d33ede8a17f7cf1640eb0c88b0396aa
https://blockchain.info/block/00000000000000000004ed5101af30d1a64d2c1ddd13324c8fae3507792141ad

[Phalo]

Wwooww thats fascinating.. this is the first time I see this.  I hope someone technical can explain thr reason why to us. The difficulty cant be that low.

[Bamselk]

Blocks are mined closely together very frequently.

The purpose of difficulty is to make the blocks average ten minutes - having hashrate is like participating in a lottery to mine a block.  Basically, they're guessing until they find the nonce.