Is this real or #mempoolspace is broken?
Showing last #bitcoin block was 57 mins ago at the time of writing 🧐
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10.2 min avg block time
Exactly, which makes a 1h+ block way off the chart. It's now mined at 1h 9mins, that's almost 7x the "normal" time
It happens from time to time. Whenever price drops, miners shut down, and blocks come in slower. Nothing to worry about
I've never seen it drop past 1h, honestly. I'm not worried tho just surprised. I don't have my node running ATM so I just checked there and saw it. First thin I thought was the site is broken
#mempoolspace is not broken.
You saw a 57 minute gap. Proof of Work works that way. The average should be about 10 minutes / block, but mining is a game of guess the nonce, so sometimes it takes longer. Sometimes it takes less.
Here's a picture from just a couple blocks later where the gap was 6 minutes, 4 minutes, then 1 minute. it happens...
