Is mining a fair mechanism in blockchain network?

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As we know, propagation of a new block in blockchain network has some delay and so some nodes receive the new block later. so if it is that the first one who finds the nonce properly wins the block can we say that the mechanism of mining is not fair enough (Because of delay in propagation of a block some blocks receive the block sooner and have more time to calculate the nonce)?

ShakibaZar

Posted 2019-11-25T12:11:20.750

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I don't understand the reasoning in your question.Pieter Wuille 2019-11-25T14:56:06.883

I edited the question and added the bold sentence to explain the reasoning. @PieterWuilleShakibaZar 2019-11-26T11:29:43.010

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Considering that a block is mined on average every 10 minutes and that the average time to propagate to all nodes is 12.6 seconds, I think it is pretty fair.

We could also guess that the big miner have incentives to get the newly mined hash very fast so it must be lower than 12.6 for them.

Saxtheowl

Posted 2019-11-25T12:11:20.750

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I edited the question to explain more, I think you didn't get my reasoning exactly. @SaxtheowlShakibaZar 2019-11-26T11:30:29.643