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Re:Bitcoin Futures Start with a Bang as Rally Trips Circuit ... by etr-strike on Monday December 11, 2017 @10:06AM (#15897395)
An increase in blocksize means an increase in propagation delay. Too much delay and miners who are closest to the most recent block get a head start mining the next block. Mining is suppose to be a lottery, not a race.

Research done on the matter shows that for each kb above the current 1mb block, 80ms of delay propagation is added.

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Re:Bitcoin Futures Start with a Bang as Rally Trips Circuit ... by brokenmachine on Monday December 11, 2017 @10:16PM (#15902752)
Couldn't/Wouldn't the difficulty be adjusted down in that case so the blocks are mined faster?
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