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Median confirmation time in 2013

How long the median transaction waited to be confirmed, in minutes.

Median confirmation time opened 2013 at 10.1 min (January 1, 2013) and closed at 7.3 min (December 31, 2013), down 27.4%. The high was 13.2 min on January 18, 2013 and the low 4.6 min on September 2, 2013.

Median confirmation time, month by month in 2013

MonthMonth end
January 20136.5 min
February 20138.3 min
March 20137.7 min
April 20137.8 min
May 20137.0 min
June 20138.9 min
July 20136.3 min
August 20136.5 min
September 20136.5 min
October 20135.7 min
November 20139.1 min
December 20137.3 min

The time from a transaction being seen to it landing in a block, for the median transaction that paid a fee. It sits near the ten-minute block time when the mempool is clear and stretches to hours when it is not.

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Also in 2013: Bitcoin price · Distance from the all-time high · Network hashrate · Mining difficulty · Difficulty adjustments · Fees paid to miners · Transactions per day · Hashprice · Miner revenue · Bitmain releases and the bitcoin price · Break-even electricity price · What a bitcoin costs us to mine, against the market

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