Questions tagged [block-inverval]

Questions concerned with the expected or actual time between the discovery of blocks.

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Longest block time and standard deviation

Monero blocks are on average 2 minutes apart, but how much is the variation? What is the standard deviation of block times generation time? Can the above question be modeled as an exponential distribution? What has been the longest period between…
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Early Monero usage compared to Bitcoin

Has anyone done an analysis comparing Bitcoin usage its first two years compared to Monero usage in its first two years since launch? I see some statistics here http://moneroblocks.info/stats but they only go back one year. Has the transactions per…
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Can Monero ever have a 10 sec. block-time?

I wonder whether Monero could have a 10 sec. block-time like Ethereum. I imagine that would be beneficial for near instant transactions. Why can they, and why can't we?
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