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Topic: Advantage of 10 minute block times vs. shorter ones? (Read 477 times)

legendary
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Well sure, what are the merits of longer vs. shorter times.  Why not 10 second or 5 second or 1 second blocks?  What's the advantage of longer block times?
Simple more confirmations per block no double spend one i can see but long time waiting for trasaction is bad...
Litecoin is in speed bad too compare to others with different approach.
Quark,Dogecoin, even POS coins like BC is faster in future that will mater.

+1 for Block 10min is you are saving disc space... in same time Doge will need 10x more space for blocks.
member
Activity: 109
Merit: 10
Well sure, what are the merits of longer vs. shorter times.  Why not 10 second or 5 second or 1 second blocks?  What's the advantage of longer block times?
legendary
Activity: 4424
Merit: 4794
Dear all,

I"m curious because I've never seen this discussed before.  What is the advantage of having targeted block times of 10 minutes vs. shorter ones such as 1 minute or 30 seconds?

I am not seeing altcoins with block times as long as 10 minutes so I was curious.

you seem to write your question as if bitcoin developers chose 10 minutes after seeing altcoins with 2min blocks and thought 'hey lets make ours 10mins instead'. but they didnt, bitcoin came first and they chose 10 minutes to give a fair time gap for CPU's to do large calculations (they never planned on GPU/ASICS in 2009).

imagine it this way. if they chose 2 minutes 5 years ago. many altcoin creators would today be making 20 second blocks. and you would be questioning their 2 minute decision, where as altcoins are much faster

hero member
Activity: 770
Merit: 500
faster confirmation times , like litecoin.
member
Activity: 109
Merit: 10
Dear all,

I"m curious because I've never seen this discussed before.  What is the advantage of having targeted block times of 10 minutes vs. shorter ones such as 1 minute or 30 seconds?

I am not seeing altcoins with block times as long as 10 minutes so I was curious.
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