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https://youtu.be/LDF8bOEqXt4?t=4722 https://youtu.be/LDF8bOEqXt4?t=4722 The bottleneck is propagation time. Also "The propogation time did not depend strongly
by gizmo686 9y ago
https://youtu.be/LDF8bOEqXt4?t=4722 https://youtu.be/LDF8bOEqXt4?t=4722
The bottleneck is propagation time. Also "The propogation time did not depend strongly on the network bandwidth for the given nodes"
Keep in mind that it is not sufficient for each node to have the bare minimum amount of bandwidth to download 1 block every ten minutes. When a node mines a block, we need that block to propagate across the entire network (~11,000 nodes [0]). Further, we want this propagation time to be relatively trivial; otherwise the number of orphan blocks would increase giving an advantage to large mining clusters and reducing the overall security of the network.
[0] https://bitnodes.earn.com/dashboard/ https://bitnodes.earn.com/dashboard/