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Board Economics
Re: Do you really believe in bitcoin as a currency?
by
I_bitcoin
on 28/11/2013, 14:43:57 UTC

The block propagation time is already 4.5 seconds (I don't know why they took down that linked page, I had discussed in depth a solution to selfish-mining attack on that page). As you may know the equation for orphan rate depends on block propagation time, and  500MB block sizes will increase that propagation delay.

I am hoping to get a look at correlations between propagation delay and block size.    This would give us a good sense of what will happen as we work to grow the TPS.   4.5 seconds only gives me one data point and does not also provide the block size.   If someone has prop. delay plus block size source of data that would be awesome to take a look at.   Perhaps my question belongs in the dev forum.