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Re: Merry Christmas... but the last block was ~40 minutes ago.
by
colinistheman
on 26/12/2014, 16:44:19 UTC
From satoshi's own mouth on the subject of verifying fast payments:

Besides, 10 minutes is too long to verify that payment is good.  It needs to be as fast as swiping a credit card is today.
See the snack machine thread, I outline how a payment processor could verify payments well enough, actually really well (much lower fraud rate than credit cards), in something like 10 seconds or less.  If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.
http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=423.msg3819#msg3819