Post
Topic
Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Blocks are still taking way too long.
by
OrientA
on 14/10/2014, 08:42:28 UTC
So I wonder why people haven't been asking the core team to change the confirm time on the next hard fork? This is a perfect time to do it considering we're very likely going to be doing a hard fork any way to increase the block size from 1 mb.

It takes about 1 hour to make sure the confirmation is solid due to orphan blocks or some kind of attacks. 6 confirmation of 10 minute block takes 1 hour. If you reduce the block time to 1 min, then it will take 60 confirmation to avoid double spend.