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Median confirmation time in 2023

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

Median confirmation time opened 2023 at 4.5 min (January 1, 2023) and closed at 7.8 min (December 31, 2023), up 76.0%. The high was 18.0 min on August 27, 2023 and the low 4.3 min on January 15, 2023.

Median confirmation time, month by month in 2023

MonthMonth end
January 202311.7 min
February 202310.7 min
March 20238.4 min
April 20239.8 min
May 20237.6 min
June 20237.8 min
July 20239.4 min
August 20238.5 min
September 20237.7 min
October 20239.2 min
November 202310.2 min
December 20237.8 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 · 2022 · 2021 · 2020 · 2019 · 2018 · 2017 · 2016 · 2015 · 2014 · 2013

Also in 2023: 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 · Miner prices per terahash · Bitmain releases and the bitcoin price

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