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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Is the expected waiting time for a block always 10 min?
by
CIYAM
on 06/03/2015, 18:52:18 UTC
For every block that takes an hour, there should be one that takes a few seconds.

Encountering each case should be equally likely.

I haven't studied the stats but I think you need to take into account the "difficulty adjustments" also (i.e. before an increase in difficulty I'd expect the average time to have become less than 10 minutes and of course the opposite for a difficulty decrease).