Can we still say that bitcoin transactions are faster?
I have send some of my bitcoins to an address and about one hour has been passed but still there is not even a single confirmation.
what do you say about the transaction timing?
You said nothing about the fee that you paid.
You said nothing about inputs or outputs of the transaction.
You haven't shared the transaction ID for anyone else to look at the transaction.
Therefore, it is impossible to make a value judgement on your statement.
I've never had a transaction take more than 3 seconds to transmit and be received, so yes reasonable
transactions are still very fast.
It has always been true that confirmations require blocks, and that blocks occur
on average once every ten minutes.
Ten minutes "on average" can result in a block within a second, or an hour-and-a-half without a block.
In many cases, confirmations are not necessary. When they are necessary, the security that results is typically worth waiting for (either worth it to the sender, or to the recipient). The more important the confirmation is to the sender, the higher fee they should pay to ensure that they don't have to wait more than one block.
If you sent a un-reasonable transaction (dust outputs and/or insufficient fee), then you set yourself up for failure, and are only complaining about your own inability to properly use the system.
If you sent a reasonable transaction, then the recipient feels that they need the security that comes with a confirmation and you accepted that requirement when you chose to transact with that recipient.