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Median confirmation time in 2020

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

Median confirmation time opened 2020 at 3.6 min (January 1, 2020) and closed at 13.7 min (December 31, 2020), up 275.8%. The high was 25.3 min on October 27, 2020 and the low 3.6 min on January 1, 2020.

Median confirmation time, month by month in 2020

MonthMonth end
January 202010.3 min
February 20208.3 min
March 20207.1 min
April 202012.8 min
May 20207.8 min
June 20209.9 min
July 202012.7 min
August 202010.2 min
September 202018.4 min
October 202017.0 min
November 202013.7 min
December 202013.7 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 · 2019 · 2018 · 2017 · 2016 · 2015 · 2014 · 2013

Also in 2020: 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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