How does Kaspa's 10 BPS design account for geographic network latency?

Kaspa's 10 blocks-per-second target was deliberately calibrated around the physical speed limits of internet traffic between major world regions. The internet isn't equally fast everywhere — signals between nodes inside the same region (North America, Europe, or Asia) travel in roughly 50 milliseconds, but cross-ocean hops take much longer. Kaspa's protocol is designed around these three regional clusters, ensuring a newly mined block has enough time to spread throughout its regional cluster before the next block is produced. For a beginner, this means Kaspa's speed isn't arbitrary — it was tuned to match how fast information can realistically travel across the real-world internet.

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