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The title was accurate. Blocks are being found at a rate of 1 every 5 minutes. There's no way the next difficulty jump will be enough to bring the speed to 10 minutes since it takes the average time over the last 2016 blocks. It's likely in a couple weeks the time to find blocks will be even lower than it is now if the growth rate continues like this.


There's also a ceiling on the percentage increase and decrease possible.




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