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The timing of block arrivals also greatly affects the guarantees against double spending, so this paradox may have some security implications.

Accepting transactions blindly after 5 confirmations/blocks throws away the information of the amount of time it takes to generate those blocks

https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/040



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