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Shorter block times hurt decentralization
because they hurt smaller mining pools
because smaller mining pools depend on orphaning rate more
because orphaning rate depends on the number of competing blocks in unit time
since network connection quality becomes more important with higher orphaning rate
and of competing blocks, the larger miner with better ...
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