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by rampage101 3219 days ago
It shows up as unconfirmed usually in a few seconds, meaning it's in the mempool and ready to be added to the blockchain. If you trust the sender it's enough... but on average you are right that it's about 10 minutes to get the transaction included in the block. With Ethereum they are mining blocks about every 10 or 20 seconds.