# Confirmations taking forever

**URL:** <https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/confirmations-taking-forever/16872>\
**Category:** Technical Support\
**Created:** [June 9, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/confirmations-taking-forever/16872 "2017-06-09T17:35:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![adrian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/82dd89/32.png) [@adrian](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/adrian)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/confirmations-taking-forever/16872/1 "2017-06-09T17:35:25Z")

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Hi,

Recent zcash user here (at least active user)

I made a few transactions. Confirmations are taking ages. Like tens of minutes. How is this supposed to be practical?

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**Author:** ![anon47418038](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@anon47418038](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/anon47418038)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2017, 3:03am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/confirmations-taking-forever/16872/2 "2017-06-10T03:03:55Z")

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mining is a probabilistic process, which is why block times are variable in PoW coins like bitcoin and zcash…for instance, right now the last 6 or so blocks on the zcash blockchain are only about a minute apart, rather than 2.5 minutes apart…and sometimes it takes longer for miners to find a block. the variance can be even worse with bitcoin where the difficulty adjustment algorithm is shooting for 10 minutes between blocks rather than 2.5. Sometimes is just takes longer to find a solution ☹