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		pixie_ on Sept 20, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: China Bans Bitcoin Executives from Leaving Country... The network self adjusts to generating a block every 10 minutes. This will have no effect on block generation rate.

bdcravens on Sept 20, 2017 [–]

This doesn't happen in real time, but adjusts every 2016 blocks. So loss of hash rate will temporarily affect block generation time until the next adjustment.

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