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Re:Five major Canadian banks mysteriously go offline in hour... by sleepingadmin on Thursday February 17, 2022 @12:14PM (#30375720)
>Another day, another answer to "what is Bitcoin good for?". I've occasionally seen Bitcoin outages of up to an hour or so, though.

Welp, I'll admit it when I'm wrong. Tell me more!

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Re:Five major Canadian banks mysteriously go offline in hour... by flotzam on Thursday February 17, 2022 @12:37PM (#30376068)
They're probably just referring to the (historically decreasing) variance in time between blocks, nominally 10 minutes. Not an outage by any stretch but occasionally annoying. It's smoother in higher frequency blockchains.

https://blog.lopp.net/bitcoin-block-time-variance/

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Re:Five major Canadian banks mysteriously go offline in hour... by kragen on Thursday February 17, 2022 @01:16PM (#30376578)
Right, that's what I meant.
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