Why do Asian nodes in Kaspa's network experience slightly higher block propagation latency than other regions?

Asian nodes tend to experience slightly higher internal latency because the Asian continent covers a much larger geographic area than North America or Europe, meaning blocks must travel farther to reach all peers within the region. Block propagation is the process by which a newly mined block spreads to every node on the network — the faster it spreads, the less likely two miners are to accidentally build competing versions of the ledger. In Kaspa's tri-region model, North American nodes may achieve around 95% propagation efficiency with blocks reaching most peers within 100ms, and European nodes show similar results; Asian nodes lag slightly behind simply because the distances involved are greater. Understanding this helps explain why Kaspa's consensus design accounts for real-world geography rather than assuming an ideal, zero-latency network.