Just lately, a complete of 5 consecutive blocks (918864 to 918860) have been mined on the Bitcoin blockchain in 20 minutes.
The Bitcoin neighborhood is perplexed by this dizzying tempo. Blocks 91861 and 91860 have been mined inside simply seconds of one another.
How did we mine 5 BTC blocks in lower than 20 meters? The primary two have been 14 seconds other than two totally different miners and have been full blocks. Is that this regular or a statistical outlier? Pure query. pic.twitter.com/cRwpDWeCaB
— Vinny Lingham (@VinnyLingham) October 13, 2025
Is it nonetheless regular?
Blocks are usually generated each 10 minutes. However earlier as we speak, blocks have been being generated on common about each 4 minutes.
Bitcoin fanatic Dan McArdle argues that this unusually excessive Bitcoin manufacturing charge isn’t as uncommon because it might sound.
“I don't have the information in entrance of me, however anecdotally, I keep in mind quite a few occasions like that through the years,” McArdle defined.
Please notice that the mining time for every block is random. Following an exponential distribution, the likelihood of with the ability to mine a block drops considerably in a short time.
For instance, the likelihood that two blocks are minted simply 14 seconds aside is only one.4% per block. That is extremely unlikely, however not unattainable. Because of this, numerous blocks will be mined in a really brief time period, explains McArdle.
As McArdle explains, the current block was “properly inside” the anticipated statistical Poisson distribution, which describes the likelihood of numerous occasions occurring inside a given time interval.
