Block arrivals in the Bitcoin blockchain · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1801.07447/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTBlock arrivals in the Bitcoin blockchain — mentioned by cesarosumhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26335138urn:hackerpapers:mention:1801.07447:26335138Wed, 03 Mar 2021 21:49:10 GMT<p>It&#x27;s definitely not a homogenous Poisson process, mainly because of the random changes to mining difficulty and propagation delays. There&#x27;s a good paper here looking at block arrival times and fitting some different models - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.07447.pdf</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1801.07447/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CR