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Median confirmation time in 2024

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

Median confirmation time opened 2024 at 14.3 min (January 1, 2024) and closed at 9.0 min (December 31, 2024), down 37.2%. The high was 15.4 min on July 5, 2024 and the low 2.6 min on May 19, 2024.

Median confirmation time, month by month in 2024

MonthMonth end
January 202410.3 min
February 202410.0 min
March 202410.0 min
April 20249.3 min
May 20249.9 min
June 202410.8 min
July 202412.0 min
August 202411.9 min
September 202412.0 min
October 20248.5 min
November 20248.3 min
December 20249.0 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 · 2023 · 2022 · 2021 · 2020 · 2019 · 2018 · 2017 · 2016 · 2015 · 2014 · 2013

Also in 2024: 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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