Weird experience. I’m used to the 20 minute confirmation time. I just did a transaction and it’s confirming very slowly, almost 30 minutes now for 10 confirmations.

Was there some protocol change?

    • VolunTerry
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      1 year ago

      This makes some sense to me as more of a feeling without digging up enough data to confirm the suspicion, but I’d love others with more expertise to chime in.

      Isn’t part of the price>miners>hash>confirmation feedback loop you’re suggesting typically accompanied by corresponding upticks or downticks in interest, use and transaction volume as well?

      Plus, I thought the dynamic block size and dynamic fees usually helped smooth this out and keep the confirmation times within a relatively predictable range of upper and lower bounds.

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      1 year ago

      as the price of XMR dips, the miners reduce, and the hashrate reduces

      and difficulty takes some time to adjust, hence confirmation times are longer. I don’t remember the exact numbers off the top of my head but it is not instantaneous.