
Centralized Mining Pools are Delaying Monero Transaction Confirmations by 60 Seconds
Summary Centralized mining pools are delaying the first confirmation of Monero transactions by a full minute, on average. This makes Monero confirmations slower than Litecoin even though Litecoin’s average block time is 2.5 minutes, compared to Monero’s 2 minutes flat. Mining pool operators could solve this issue by adding new transactions to their block templates more frequently, like P2Pool already does. The Isabellas are getting kicked off the bus txstreet.com is an animated visualization of the Monero transaction confirmation process....