For those of you that have been following along with the whole Bitcoin fork thing you may have know that in the past day or so the Segwit code has gone live. With this upgrade has come some unintended consequences manifesting themselves as massively lengthened times between blocks being added to the blockchain.
As seen in the screenshot taken from blockchain.info the average time between blocks isn't even close to the 10 minute target the BTC network is supposed to adhere to. If you do have to send Bitcoin anywhere make sure you allow atleast double if not ten times the duration to have your coins sent to where you need them. Hopefully the difficulty on the BTC network adjusts accordingly to once again get blocks close to the 10 minute mark..
As at it's current rate it's damn near unusable for real life applications or purchases at brick and mortar vendors, no one in their right mind would want to wait at the grocery store for 1-3 hours to make sure their payment went through. By design the network is supposed to adjust difficulty to produce a block every ten minutes.. However something must have happened to throw this off as Bitcoin switched over.
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