Bitcoin block confirmation times have a Poisson distribution with expected value of 10 minutes but it's unbounded.https://twitter.com/bitfinex/status/747891546058457089 …
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"So my only option is occasionally waiting an hour." "Might work?" "What?" "You seem to think a Poisson distribution cares about time."
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you’re ignoring the fact that their txn might not get mined because they guessed fees wrong or were unlucky or miners were selfish
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to be fair, intermediaries with a float/daily reconciliation could (and probably do grease the wheels in current payment systems)
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