48 minutes 54 seconds between blocks.

Is that a lot?

Depends upon context.

Airplane flight? No.

Time between Bitcoin Blocks? Yes.

Block #857486 contained 2,972 transactions.

That drove minimum fees up to 7 sats/vByte.

AntPool solved this block. 🐜

https://mempool.space/block/00000000000000000002d19665690e1474091a54bf92351c0791559603cf36f1