Protocol & Consensus • Estimated 55m

Transaction Confirmations

fundamentals.settlement-assurances

How confirmation depth affects settlement confidence for different payment risk profiles.

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Curated resources (3)

• Bitcoin Developer Guide: Block Chain (article) How blocks and confirmations establish confidence.
• Bitcoin Confirmation Risk Calculator (article) Interactive model for mapping hashrate assumptions to confirmation risk.
• Bitcoin Core Academy: Consensus Model (article) Consensus assumptions behind finality expectations.

Direct prerequisites (1)

• Reorgs and Finality

Direct dependents (0)

• None

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