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Data / Median confirmation time / 2022
How long the median transaction waited to be confirmed, in minutes.
Median confirmation time opened 2022 at 3.6 min (January 1, 2022) and closed at 4.9 min (December 31, 2022), up 35.6%. The high was 14.9 min on December 24, 2022 and the low 3.6 min on January 1, 2022.
| Month | Month end |
|---|---|
| January 2022 | 7.7 min |
| February 2022 | 5.9 min |
| March 2022 | 8.0 min |
| April 2022 | 7.4 min |
| May 2022 | 7.6 min |
| June 2022 | 5.3 min |
| July 2022 | 4.9 min |
| August 2022 | 7.9 min |
| September 2022 | 5.7 min |
| October 2022 | 5.6 min |
| November 2022 | 7.8 min |
| December 2022 | 4.9 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 2022: 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