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Data / Median confirmation time / 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.
| Month | Month end |
|---|---|
| January 2019 | 6.4 min |
| February 2019 | 7.5 min |
| March 2019 | 10.0 min |
| April 2019 | 9.4 min |
| May 2019 | 13.6 min |
| June 2019 | 6.9 min |
| July 2019 | 6.2 min |
| August 2019 | 5.2 min |
| September 2019 | 10.9 min |
| October 2019 | 9.9 min |
| November 2019 | 6.0 min |
| December 2019 | 7.5 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