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Median confirmation time in 2019

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

Median confirmation time opened 2019 at 4.3 min (January 1, 2019) and closed at 7.5 min (December 31, 2019), up 73.2%. The high was 15.1 min on June 3, 2019 and the low 3.4 min on September 8, 2019.

Median confirmation time, month by month in 2019

MonthMonth end
January 20196.4 min
February 20197.5 min
March 201910.0 min
April 20199.4 min
May 201913.6 min
June 20196.9 min
July 20196.2 min
August 20195.2 min
September 201910.9 min
October 20199.9 min
November 20196.0 min
December 20197.5 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.

Other years: 2026 · 2025 · 2024 · 2023 · 2022 · 2021 · 2020 · 2018 · 2017 · 2016 · 2015 · 2014 · 2013

Also in 2019: 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

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