Claims ledger / Bitcoin
A Bitcoin block is produced every ten minutes.
overstated
Bitcoin’s ten-minute spacing is a design target. The code’s difficulty adjustment does not schedule the next block at an exact ten-minute interval.
- Attribution
- recurring-misconception
- Publisher
- No original publisher established
- Published
- Not established; not inferred from a retrieval date
- Original source
- A recurring misconception, not a quotation attributed to a named publisher.
- Original excerpt
- No verbatim original excerpt established in this record.
Verification record
Automated author inspected the primary-source passage, separately from source collection; matching text and content hash are enforced on rebuild.
Codex (automated research author) · 2026-10-02T19:35:23.741Z · External expert review not claimed.
Primary passages checked
nPowTargetSpacing = 10 * 60; consensus.fPowAllowMinDifficultyBlocks = false;
Primary source · normalized text offset 5430
Inspect source retrievals
- https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/128456b62d5e38abea031f97f823d5b28aef9357/src/pow.cpp
Retrieved 2026-10-02T19:09:56.870Z · SHA-256 cad89cf4d7b99f3f6d3e93393febe523133320a5f4e92a61c8179bb5ac526a8a - https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/128456b62d5e38abea031f97f823d5b28aef9357/src/kernel/chainparams.cpp
Retrieved 2026-10-02T19:09:57.191Z · SHA-256 f50c52551ed26e077c058bacd7ed337729ab467e1ba6e98f945bc7815f30ce3e
Assessment history
| Edition | Assessment | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| imported-correction-ledger | Ten minutes is an average design target maintained by retargeting every 2,016 blocks, not a schedule for the next block. | preserved prior interpretation; not new verification |
| 1.0.0 | overstated | Bitcoin’s ten-minute spacing is a design target. The code’s difficulty adjustment does not schedule the next block at an exact ten-minute interval. |
This selected corpus cannot establish the prevalence of inaccurate reporting across all Bitcoin media.