[lordnacho]

> What is an actual phenomenon that is well modeled by a poisson process?

Time to next Bitcoin block mined. It's 10 minutes, regardless if whether you've waited 1 hour, 10 minutes, or 10 seconds.

Makes sense though, because all the failed hashes are useless, thus no memory.

[QML]

To add on, there was this article posted months ago on the same topic:

Why Is It Taking 20 Minutes to Mine This Bitcoin Block?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16469382