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Author: Admin | 2025-04-27
Bitcoin’s blockchain is a chain of blocks that beats every 10 minutes.Every 10 minutes, a new block is added to the chain. These blocks contain Bitcoin transactions. But transactions in itself are not final as soon as they are made.Blockchain needs to verify and confirm these transactions. If you have noticed, the blockchain explorer shows your transaction status as ‘Unconfirmed’ as soon as you make the transaction.Of course, I have told you before that these transactions sit in an unconfirmed pool of transactions called Bitcoin mempool.Let’s explore in this guide:What happens to these unconfirmed transactions?How they become confirmed?How to check whether a transaction is confirmed or not? Etc…What Are Bitcoin Confirmations?Bitcoin confirmations are simply the number of blocks added to the blockchain with your transaction also being added to it.For example, you will see one confirmation on your transaction when the block containing your transaction is added to the blockchain.Similarly, as the next block is added after this block, you will see 2 confirmations on your transaction. This way the number of confirmations on your transaction will keep increasing as more blocks are added.Checking Bitcoin confirmations for your transaction is pretty easy.Just to go to one of the Bitcoin block explorers. For example, in this, go to Blockchain.info and put your transaction ID (TXID) in the explorer and hit search, as shown below:Note: I have used this TXID for this example: a81383b5320c476527924618f610b91162bd40d637bf45b7ff5896346b1d15a4As you hit search, you will see this screen showing you the number of confirmations on this transaction:That’s how you check the number of confirmations for a transaction. Now that you have learned this, it is only natural to think, how many confirmations are sufficient before considering a transaction successful.How Many Bitcoin Confirmations Are Required? [Bitcoin Why 6 Confirmations Are Required]Every blockchain has a different number of suggested confirmations
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