52 What keeps the average block time at 10 minutes? 2011-09-10T17:30:48.390

45 Why was the target block time chosen to be 10 minutes? 2011-11-03T12:21:59.967

18 What is the expected time until the next block is found? 2012-06-07T07:21:56.453

15 Would a reduced block generation time make the Finney attack more difficult? 2011-09-21T23:54:00.863

14 What is the largest number of blocks that have ever occurred in 1 hour? 2016-06-01T16:31:57.863

9 What is the longest time gap between blocks in 2010 - 2011? 2011-12-28T12:36:11.230

8 What is the standard deviation of block generation times? 2012-09-14T07:53:15.830

8 Why is Poisson instead of Negative Binomial used for computing attacker's potential progress? 2016-03-22T04:04:12.317

6 What stops miners/nodes lying about what time a block was mined? 2012-10-17T05:45:29.557

6 Shortest and Longest block interval time ever recorded in Bitcoin 2018-07-31T14:23:52.790

5 Can a blockchain from the future be synchronized today? 2016-10-07T22:01:42.150

5 How does mining process takes Approximately 10 minutes? 2017-03-01T22:28:43.583

4 Does variability of block solution time change as difficulty increases? 2012-09-10T19:16:12.933

4 how exactly was the original coefficient for difficulty determined? 2013-10-16T07:02:32.490

4 Why is average time for block 8 minutes, when the target is recomputed to keep it 10 minutes? 2013-11-30T08:43:31.623

4 Will a new block be found immediately, when there are enough transactions to fill a block? 2015-05-11T07:24:19.750

4 Why is a short blocktime considered to be unsafe? 2015-07-13T20:56:50.220

4 Could Bitcoins (or any other blockchain based cryptocurrency) feasibly ever be used for purchases that need to go through fast? 2015-08-01T11:09:24.573

3 Would it be possible to make a functional Bitcoin fork that confirmed a block of transactions every millisecond? 2013-04-03T07:52:54.297

3 What if the execution time for an alt coin script exceeds the block time? 2014-03-12T05:00:10.540

3 Which cryptocurrency has the smallest block time? 2015-02-06T17:08:56.023

3 What is the minimal block time practically possible? 2015-03-11T23:25:34.610

3 Probability of Orphaned Blocks 2017-06-14T10:08:17.097

3 Why not implement GHOST in bitcoin? 2017-11-13T15:45:35.703

3 How are block interval, block size and effective throughput related? 2018-06-13T09:33:10.940

3 Why we need mining? 2018-06-15T10:23:17.343

2 Why was the time between these two blocks not approximately 10 minutes? 2013-11-12T20:23:10.503

2 "Instantaneous" transaction verification? 2013-12-13T20:48:36.877

2 What would happen if 90% of the Bitcoin miners suddenly stopped mining? 2014-02-17T17:00:29.990

2 How do you answer the question "Why 10 mins?" for beginners? 2016-06-05T14:33:47.070

2 Why not multiply "six confirmations" and divide Time-Between-Blocks and Reward by the same factor? 2017-01-10T04:25:58.770

2 Is it possible to reduce the block interval in the future? 2017-02-16T16:26:43.660

2 Probability that a block will be confirmed in x minutes 2017-04-05T05:21:02.030

2 How to calculate block generation time from block's data? 2017-05-11T11:50:23.603

2 Why not decrease the difficulty to increase capacity? 2017-05-19T23:31:47.743

2 Calculating Hashrate / Threads correlating to Average Block Time 2018-04-15T07:18:37.433

1 Could ASICs be used to mine a "BitcoinX4" blockchain? 2013-05-01T01:37:05.943

1 Who decides that the new block is ready to hash? 2016-04-28T00:02:34.433

1 The probability that the entire network generates at least two blocks within 10 minutes? 2016-09-18T18:32:42.120

1 Reducing block generation time 2017-07-21T02:34:05.987

1 Why are Bitcoin transactions sometimes confirmed instantly if blocks are mined every 10 minutes? 2018-01-24T17:21:15.357

1 Which is the better estimator for future mining intervals, the 10 minute protocol target or the observed, historical average? 2019-04-30T15:59:35.197

0 The probability of block generation by two miners in a special case? 2016-09-19T20:06:34.300

0 What happens if the block's generated are exactly 10 minutes? 2017-12-07T07:41:45.177

0 How does mining work on the moving target (variables change every second)? 2018-01-22T23:02:32.957

0 Why does bitcoin mining take so long? 2018-01-27T19:33:20.720

-1 What modification of the proof of work algorithm will speed up confirmations as the network hashrate increases? 2013-03-23T10:41:36.790