Quote from: cunicula on July 16, 2011, 02:06:45 AM

Quote from: TraderTimm on July 15, 2011, 05:22:50 PM

From what I've read from the whitepaper, 1 block every ten minutes was selected as a happy medium for network propagation and the likelyhood of forking the chain to do malicious things.

More can be found here:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/34237903/Bit-Coin-Whitepaper

This is not relevant because you can also vary the number of coins per block to achieve the same effect.

Its not about number of coins per block. The 1 block/10 minutes is designed to increase security.