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Re: [ANN][RFC][RIC] Logo contest! Riecoin - new prime numbers POW coin, 50RIC prize
by
gatra
on 15/09/2013, 21:34:46 UTC
2.5 min blocks is too long in this day and age ... maybe a year ago that was OK
Try 60 seconds.
1min block speed would bloat the blockchain and create more orphans, stales. We have 2.5min which was tested for years in LTC. I don't know of any 1min coin that has years of testing.
I think it's not true that 1min is fast enough for waiting in a line when you buy a coffee: with blocks targeted each minute, you have a 1 in 150 chance chance of having to wait more than 5 minutes for a block, this would still be unacceptable for some coffee stores.
Also, with 2.5min, each block requires more work (is more difficult), meaning we will have larger prime numbers sooner.