What Is the Target Block Time for Bitcoin?

The target block time for Bitcoin is 10 minutes. This is the average time the network aims for between the discovery of new blocks.

The difficulty adjustment mechanism works to maintain this average, ensuring a predictable rate of new coin issuance and transaction confirmation.

How Many Blocks Trigger a Difficulty Adjustment in Bitcoin?
What Is the Target Block Time for the Bitcoin Network and Why Is It Important?
What Happens If a Miner Submits a Share That Meets the Network Difficulty but Not the Pool’s Target Difficulty?
How Is the Difficulty of a pool’S’share’ Target Set Relative to the Network Difficulty?
In the Context of Options Trading, How Is the Relationship between Share Difficulty and Network Difficulty Analogous to “In-the-Money” Vs. “Out-of-the-Money”?
How Does the Target Hash Value Relate to the Mining Difficulty?
What Is the Relationship between Hash Rate and the Difficulty Target?
If the Hash Rate Doubles, How Does the Difficulty Target Respond?

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