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Data / Median confirmation time / 2025
How long the median transaction waited to be confirmed, in minutes.
Median confirmation time opened 2025 at 7.1 min (January 1, 2025) and closed at 10.6 min (December 31, 2025), up 49.5%. The high was 14.4 min on November 16, 2025 and the low 0.1 min on August 30, 2025.
| Month | Month end |
|---|---|
| January 2025 | 7.4 min |
| February 2025 | 7.8 min |
| March 2025 | 7.4 min |
| April 2025 | 9.9 min |
| May 2025 | 5.4 min |
| June 2025 | 6.8 min |
| July 2025 | 5.3 min |
| August 2025 | 2.6 min |
| September 2025 | 3.6 min |
| October 2025 | 10.4 min |
| November 2025 | 7.3 min |
| December 2025 | 10.6 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 2025: 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