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219 points skadamat | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.213s | source
1. drexlspivey ◴[] No.41302666[source]
Same thing is true for Bitcoin block times (also a Poisson process), a block is expected to arrive every 10 minutes on average but if 10 minutes (or 15 or 20) have passed since the last block the expected time for the next block is still 10 minutes.