30 minutes 57 seconds between blocks.

Is that a lot?

Depends upon context.

Airplane flight? No.

Time between Bitcoin Blocks? Yes.

Block #856176 contained 2,603 transactions.

That drove minimum fees up to 4 sats/vByte.

AntPool solved this block. 🐜

https://mempool.space/block/000000000000000000026b69f51ec366317e2092a3f3bbd0d768538fdcd4f880