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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Does the number of miners reduce when the price drops?
by
hosseinimr93
on 04/08/2024, 13:01:38 UTC
Block times can be longer than 10 minutes or shorter than 10 minutes, depends on network hash rate and blockchain difficulty.
I fully understand what you say, but this is not accurate and it may be a little confusing for a newbie that is not much familiar with how blocks are mined.

The block time can always be more or less than 10 minutes, regardless of whether the network hash rate has increased or decreased.
If the total network hash rate increases, the average block time would be less than 10 minutes until the difficulty is adjusted, but we can still have many blocks mined in less than 10 minutes or even in few seconds.