How quickly does a new Kaspa block reach nodes around the world?

A block mined in North America reaches most local peers within 50 milliseconds, European nodes after roughly 200 milliseconds, and Asian nodes after roughly 300 milliseconds. Kaspa spreads blocks using a gossip protocol that works across parallel paths — multiple peers relay the block at the same time rather than passing it one node at a time down a single chain. Before a node asks for the full block, it checks whether the block meets its local blue work threshold; if it does, the node pulls the full block and passes it on. The practical upshot for a beginner is that even across continents, Kaspa is designed so that every valid block eventually reaches every region — geography slows delivery by a few hundred milliseconds, but it does not cause blocks to be silently skipped.

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