You can include a transaction bounty (traditionally 0.01 BTC) with your payment which the verifiers receive if they're the first to verify your payment. Effectively, this puts your transaction at the top of the priority queue. When you're connected to a healthy number of peers, this can bring down the verification time down to seconds.
Isn't transaction verification tied to block generation, and isn't block generation limited to about 1 every 10 minutes?
Isn't transaction verification tied to block generation, and isn't block generation limited to about 1 every 10 minutes?