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Data / Median confirmation time / 2017
How long the median transaction waited to be confirmed, in minutes.
Median confirmation time opened 2017 at 10.8 min (January 1, 2017) and closed at 9.1 min (December 31, 2017), down 15.8%. The high was 28.9 min on August 22, 2017 and the low 5.8 min on October 26, 2017.
| Month | Month end |
|---|---|
| January 2017 | 23.9 min |
| February 2017 | 12.6 min |
| March 2017 | 20.5 min |
| April 2017 | 14.5 min |
| May 2017 | 16.8 min |
| June 2017 | 11.9 min |
| July 2017 | 17.2 min |
| August 2017 | 14.2 min |
| September 2017 | 10.1 min |
| October 2017 | 15.8 min |
| November 2017 | 17.1 min |
| December 2017 | 9.1 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 2017: Bitcoin price · Distance from the all-time high · 200-day and 200-week averages · 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