Bitcoin confirmation time unchanged in 10 months https://blockchain.info/charts/...

mootothemax · on Oct 26, 2016

> Bitcoin confirmation time unchanged in 10 months

That's the problem with logarithmic scales; it's easy to make one that looks like it's showing something different.

Try taking a look at average and median times when the scale is flipped to linear:

https://blockchain.info/charts/median-confirmation-time?days...

https://blockchain.info/charts/avg-confirmation-time?daysAve...

Both highlight quite a spike in recent days.

e98cuenc · on Oct 26, 2016

By "quite a spike" you mean a change from 8 min to 10 min in a value with a relatively high variance? That's a slight increase at best, and nothing here suggest anything else than the null hypothesis.

mootothemax · on Oct 26, 2016

>By "quite a spike" you mean a change from 8 min to 10 min in a value with a relatively high variance?

Please don't put words in my mouth.

Taek · on Oct 26, 2016

The average might be 40 minutes, but this can be heavily skewed by a small number of transactions with zero fees.

A better graph would be "average fee of transactions confirmed after only one block".