52 minutes 23 seconds between blocks.

Is that a lot?

Depends upon context.

Airplane flight? No.

Time between Bitcoin Blocks? Yes.

Block #859045 contained 3,330 transactions.

That drove minimum fees up to 5 sats/vByte.

Foundry USA solved this block. 🇺🇸

https://mempool.space/block/00000000000000000002bd2b74186972e38a24493cabe16a4bf02676dfacb0da