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Median confirmation time in 2014

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

Median confirmation time opened 2014 at 6.5 min (January 1, 2014) and closed at 7.8 min (December 31, 2014), up 20.6%. The high was 14.9 min on March 16, 2014 and the low 5.5 min on April 4, 2014.

Median confirmation time, month by month in 2014

MonthMonth end
January 20147.4 min
February 20147.0 min
March 20147.9 min
April 20147.7 min
May 20147.5 min
June 20149.3 min
July 20148.1 min
August 20146.3 min
September 20147.5 min
October 20146.0 min
November 20147.5 min
December 20147.8 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 2014: 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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