diff --git a/ch10.asciidoc b/ch10.asciidoc
index 2558a84e..a94ea439 100644
--- a/ch10.asciidoc
+++ b/ch10.asciidoc
@@ -1181,7 +1181,10 @@ only advantage is providing weaker guarantees to people who are willing
 to accept those guarantees.  For example, if you're willing to accept
 three minutes of miners agreeing on the best block chain as sufficient
 security, you'd prefer a system with 1-minute blocks, where you could
-wait for three blocks, over a system with 10-minute blocks.
+wait for three blocks, over a system with 10-minute blocks.  The shorter
+the time between blocks, the more miner work is wasted on accidental
+forks (in addition to other problems), so many people prefer Bitcoin's
+10-minute blocks over shorter block intervals.
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@@ -1488,7 +1491,7 @@ delaying the transaction to obtain a signature is comparatively larger.
 In contrast, selling a more expensive item for bitcoin runs the risk of
 a double-spend attack, where the buyer broadcasts a competing
 transaction that spends one of the same inputs (UTXOs) and cancels the payment
-to the merchant. 
+to the merchant.
 A 51% attack allows attackers
 to double-spend their own transactions in the new chain, thus undoing
 the corresponding transaction in the old chain.