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Data / Median confirmation time / 2018
How long the median transaction waited to be confirmed, in minutes.
Median confirmation time opened 2018 at 13.9 min (January 1, 2018) and closed at 5.4 min (December 31, 2018), down 61.4%. The high was 17.9 min on May 11, 2018 and the low 3.9 min on December 30, 2018.
| Month | Month end |
|---|---|
| January 2018 | 15.7 min |
| February 2018 | 10.7 min |
| March 2018 | 13.7 min |
| April 2018 | 10.8 min |
| May 2018 | 9.8 min |
| June 2018 | 12.4 min |
| July 2018 | 8.5 min |
| August 2018 | 6.7 min |
| September 2018 | 5.6 min |
| October 2018 | 6.9 min |
| November 2018 | 15.3 min |
| December 2018 | 5.4 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 2018: 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