45 minutes 18 seconds between blocks.

Is that a lot?

Depends upon context.

Airplane flight? No.

Time between Bitcoin Blocks? Yes.

Block #857180 contained 3,825 transactions.

That drove minimum fees up to 5 sats/vByte.

F2Pool solved this block. 🐋

https://mempool.space/block/000000000000000000032330c04fbdba8b44716d812580670e008bbf978b7e26