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Median confirmation time in 2015

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

Median confirmation time opened 2015 at 7.2 min (January 1, 2015) and closed at 7.4 min (December 31, 2015), up 4.0%. The high was 12.3 min on September 2, 2015 and the low 6.0 min on December 27, 2015.

Median confirmation time, month by month in 2015

MonthMonth end
January 20158.3 min
February 20159.9 min
March 20157.8 min
April 20158.5 min
May 20157.5 min
June 20159.1 min
July 20159.4 min
August 20157.2 min
September 20158.0 min
October 20157.4 min
November 201511.2 min
December 20157.4 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 2015: 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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