Blockspace Competition and Inclusion Times

How temporal competition and long-tails skew block inclusion times.

I asked a question during a Reddit AMA put on by the Ethereum Foundation earlier this week and one of the responses caught my eye:

I'm looking forward to seeing updated numbers for transaction inclusion times post-merge!

The theory says that average inclusion times should be ~2x lower, because the expected-time-to-next-block post-merge is now 6 seconds (as on average you're halfway through a slot), whereas before it was 13 seconds. More regular inclusion times also reduce spikes. And in my personal experience, transaction inclusion these days is blazing fast, even compared to the post-1559 pre-merge era. It would be interesting to see what the data says.

- /u/vbuterin

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