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@ Big Barry Bitcoin
2025-02-24 13:55:47
To be honest, this is technically not true. Bitcoin's state updates on average every 10 minutes when someone claims to have found a valid block, but it is really audited 24/7, 365.
Remember that even though active running nodes receive and validate blocks when they receive them, typically 10 minutes apart, they are also pre-validating transactions in the mempool so that they can validate the blocks faster and there are always people spinning up new nodes that will start auditing from scratch, but they don't wait for the next new block to get started. Also different nodes get the message at slightly different times, so all of these things mean that Bitcoin's auditing history is just all the time, no breaks, Bitcoin is our work horse.