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Data / Median confirmation time / 2021
How long the median transaction waited to be confirmed, in minutes.
Median confirmation time opened 2021 at 10.8 min (January 1, 2021) and closed at 8.7 min (December 31, 2021), down 19.6%. The high was 26.1 min on June 28, 2021 and the low 4.0 min on August 29, 2021.
| Month | Month end |
|---|---|
| January 2021 | 12.0 min |
| February 2021 | 12.1 min |
| March 2021 | 10.6 min |
| April 2021 | 11.3 min |
| May 2021 | 7.3 min |
| June 2021 | 15.1 min |
| July 2021 | 5.1 min |
| August 2021 | 7.7 min |
| September 2021 | 6.5 min |
| October 2021 | 6.5 min |
| November 2021 | 8.0 min |
| December 2021 | 8.7 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 · 2020 · 2019 · 2018 · 2017 · 2016 · 2015 · 2014 · 2013
Also in 2021: 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