Quote from: BlackHatCoiner on March 20, 2024, 11:14:28 AM

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Short introduction for anyone who missed the first quiz:

Quote from: BlackHatCoiner on March 16, 2024, 09:03:18 PM

I decided to start these forum quiz-series, where I'll be asking questions of educational character, to improve the average user's knowledge around Bitcoin. The questions will mostly be technical and historical. To create an incentive, I will generously merit the first person who replies with the correct answer. If that is not good enough incentive, I'll create a leaderboard!

Your answer needs to be explanatory. Not just a yes-no or a single number.
If nobody finds the answer until the cut-off date, I will submit it.
Have fun! It's a game.

The first question was a tribute to the whitepaper. Now let's see how good we are at math.

Question: What is the chance of having exactly three blocks mined within the next 10 minutes? You can assume that a new block is mined every 10 minutes on average.

Cut-off date: 27/03/2024.

Giving answer on my own knowledge basis to calculate the probability of 3 blocks being mined within the next 10 minutes, we can using the poisson formul by

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