1. messing with this involves
a. changing the reward mechanism - ugly thought, distrust that if it can be changed to 1.25 easily .. it can also be changed to 200000000000000 easily

***** "absolutely but every single miner in the world will see if it is wrong you cant hide this" in principle you still keeping with the cap of 21m of coins and the period in which it will be delivered

b. changing the difficulty mechanism - ugly thought, 10x less hashpower required .. 10x more vulnerable to hash attack

****** "no different to last year Jan wasn't hackable then wont be hackable now hash power still has to stay the same as you are doing more blocks more often you need to add up to 12.5btc reward if you dont keep the hash up you wont solve in time. your computing power is too low if you dont keep the hash up.

c. changing the reward halving events from every 210k blocks to 2.1m blocks

*******"which averages out so same same" they just put a "0" in the coding no? Wink

or where ever the 210000 pops up

d. issues with propagation "for sure btc btu btfu btxtc btabc doesnt matter propagation is always a problem"

thats alot of rule changes just to still get 10mb every 10 minutes.. (data passing down cables over 10 minute average, no matter how you play with it as either 1x10 or 10x1)

ok lets delve into 1.d.
imagine it takes 10 seconds to get a block, validate it and ready to relay it out.
in 60 seconds the data has relayed through 6 'hops' of nodes.

..
but remember the block timing is not an exact science of 10min.. its an average. some blocks are solved in 2min some in 40 minutes.

so if we went to a 1minute average.. some blocks can be solved in 20 seconds.
meaning some nodes havnt even got the first block before the second block is trying to get around the network..
.. see the issue..?

************** yeah this is the biggy how can it be solved?

this is why 10mins was suggested.. enough time to propagate around and have breathing room before the next block pops up even if that block was lucky to be solved in 2 minutes.
that cant be said for a lucky block of 20 seconds

*************** that doesnt make sense if your difficulty drops 10 fold and your hashing stays the same the computing time shortens 10 fold too so yes it will happen in seconds or 1 minute average

and finally
2. even 1min is still too long for those complaining about the 10min queue when spending at the grocery store checkout argument

*********** lol i still wait a minute for the credit card to connect at some store lol but good point hopefully people are too busy reading this forum to notice a minute has gone by

I wonder if by doing this if btc will have the scale of Visa Huh

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