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Did anyone notice the time between block 882342 and 882341 was 52 minutes?
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This is very normal, and has to do with how Bitcoin's consensus mechanism (PoW) functions.
The best explainer I've found is now only available on web archive, I hope this gives you a better understanding of how Bitcoin Mining works and why Blocks can arrive 1 second later or 60 minutes later. Here's the link: https://web.archive.org/web/20221101044402/https://minerdaily.com/2021/12/31/how-are-bitcoins-difficulty-and-hash-rate-calculated/
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That happens sometimes due to the probabilistic nature of Bitcoin's block discovery process. The time between blocks follows a Poisson distribution, meaning shorter intervals are more common, but longer intervals can also occur.
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