> the computation requirement itself still delays updating the network Yes, but that's intentional and configurable, e.g. the ten minutes of average time betwe

> the computation requirement itself still delays updating the network Yes, but that's intentional and configurable, e.g. the ten minutes of average time between blocks on the btc chain. You could very easily lower that value by modifying the difficulty adjustment formula. The same amount of pow would be done for a unit of time (say 1 hour), but with higher throughput through more frequent blocks. At that point this becomes a discussion about propagation times, network quality and node speeds, all unrelated to pow. Or am I misunderstanding what you said?