Slowish blocks on Signet

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@Antoine

Where did you get the tens of seconds figure from?

@Emzy

CPU: 24 cores 12th Gen Intel i9-12900K (24) @ 5.100GHz - 128GB RAM - Bitcoin v30.2:

2026-03-27T13:10:38.321078Z UpdateTip: new best=00000000d9338f3251ebb0dc01afebf34b38a2bafaf1376ef9e26e02eadb0c64 height=297387 version=0x20000000 log2_work=43.591646 tx=28983807 date='2026-03-27T13:08:33Z' progress=1.000000 cache=13.6MiB(98716txo)
2026-03-27T13:11:27.837353Z UpdateTip: new best=00000006048ed6cfedbc6249c5eb82616a4a90cb35c76127af7a40e3198736e1 height=297388 version=0x20000000 log2_work=43.591668 tx=28983809 date='2026-03-27T13:10:22Z' progress=1.000000 cache=26.9MiB(197413txo)
2026-03-27T13:12:25.332805Z UpdateTip: new best=00000013fb4596b358dd07ede7ef18c57a64e4a6fc0b33944bb86b91f0e74b32 height=297389 version=0x20000000 log2_work=43.591690 tx=28983811 date='2026-03-27T13:11:18Z' progress=1.000000 cache=38.9MiB(296110txo)
2026-03-27T13:14:01.145243Z UpdateTip: new best=00000007326c42ef17ee090f758ba328954f24313648dc0971b7b33b165427e7 height=297390 version=0x20000000 log2_work=43.591711 tx=28983813 date='2026-03-27T13:12:16Z' progress=1.000000 cache=53.7MiB(394807txo)
2026-03-27T13:14:54.316139Z UpdateTip: new best=00000002a129891c57504b01e855d29e8e4debc90a12eb092a1afe83e87b13f0 height=297391 version=0x20000000 log2_work=43.591733 tx=28983815 date='2026-03-27T13:13:52Z' progress=1.000000 cache=65.7MiB(493505txo)
2026-03-27T13:15:43.205182Z UpdateTip: new best=0000000cd04ef18d4a43fa7fc093b8c3a6d29685d899f29e20373bfd04bab78d height=297392 version=0x20000000 log2_work=43.591755 tx=28983817 date='2026-03-27T13:14:45Z' progress=1.000000 cache=78.0MiB(592202txo)

I was looking at the difference between these timestamps, but you are right, we don’t actually know when the block was received and how long the validation took.