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Re: Why Bitcoin blocks are generated every 10 minutes?
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ETFbitcoin
on 24/02/2020, 12:11:10 UTC
⭐ Merited by fillippone (2)
Moving BTC to a 5 minute blockspeed would literally double it's transaction capacity.

orphaning rates aside, this is contentious for another reason: it speeds up the emission rate by a factor of 2. those aren't the monetary properties that bitcoiners signed up for.

it would also only represent a small, linear increase in throughput capacity. what we need are mechanisms that can provide exponential increases. LN is one such mechanism.

Alternatively you could reduce block reward 50% to keep emission rate. But both changing block time interval or block reward require hard-fork, which won't be approved, especially because Bitcoin community prioritize backward compatibility.