Why Is It Taking 20 Minutes to Mine This Bitcoin Block?
Does this mean that the second block from a random point in time is, on average, 20 minutes away?<p>Anyone know what the longest wait time on a block in recent history was?<p>Final question -- do large mining operations network their miners so that they don't overlap their hashes. I'm thinking the overhead in doing that would probably be counter-productive given the massive problem space. But, if they were networked that then the probability would eventually go down for a long enough wait between blocks (assuming there exists some massive mining operation).