40 minutes 43 seconds between blocks.

Is that a lot?

Depends upon context.

Airplane flight? No.

Time between Bitcoin Blocks? Yes.

Block #860854 contained 3,987 transactions.

That drove minimum fees up to 4 sats/vByte.

Foundry USA solved this block. 🇺🇸

https://mempool.space/block/00000000000000000002301e83e983945848c1194f8dac4ae20539ad11b15e2b