I agree, and you just nailed it.  If a person knows how to send transaction properly, he does not need to post this kind of stuff (OP's whining)  Bitcoin confirmation does not change, it is the transaction fee and rate that does change.  So in order to have a fast transaction we need to follow the transaction fee rule.

Bitcoin should be fast, but it is not designed to keep up with this huge amount of user activity. As it is a decentralized currency it is not that easy to change the code and let everyone agree on it. There are 2 ways that have the most supporters atm, that want to make bitcoin to work faster - SegWIt and Bitcoin Unlimited. I won't go into details of these... But they can't agree for months which to active...

If you are looking for more instant transactions I'd suggest you to look at some altcoins such as litecoin and dash for example. Their networks dont have many transactions. Litecoin even has SegWit.

What could you do to try to push your transaction is to enter your transaction ID here : https://www.viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator/ , viabtc is a bitcoin mining pool that want to help btc users to get our transactions to confirm faster and its with no charge. Though you will still need to wait for them to mine a block but your transaction will end up confirming faster.


Here you can see fees that you need to put in order for your transaction to be confirmed within 1hour or less : https://bitcoinfees.21.co/

- No you don't have to follow market fee each day, just use wallets like electrum that will just put enough fee on your transaction to get confirmation within next block.

- This fee used to be enough in past but due to lots of spam transactions filling mempool for last few days, you have to increase fee to get faster confirmation.

- Yes its horror show right now due to spam attacks, when LN and segwit will be activated in bitcoin it will again be suitable for micro transaction with cheaper fee and faster confirmation.

OP, your transaction landed in a pool of 63588 unconfirmed transactions in the last 24 hours and you sent it only 6 hours ago. Looking at these numbers you can expect it to confirm within the next 8 hours, so go to bed and when you wake up it should be there all fine and green.
Next time set a bigger fee. Only 4 satoshis more would have bought you a 3h confirmation! Now ask yourself if those 10 hours more that you will have to wait were worth 4 sat.

Not everyone is an expert so how about people stop blaming him. If we want bitcoin to be widely adopted it should be simple enough that anyone can use it efficiently.

OP, as lizardbtc already pointed out your best chance now is to use viabtcs accelerator.

Nobody is educating newbys. That is is a huge part of the problem. There needs to be webinars and seminars to help people along.

The viabtc accelerator is always full in recent weeks and when ever i try to push the transaction through them they just showed that it is full.I do accept the fact that for everyone to be adopted bitcoin should be simple enough and the first transaction is always the difficult one ,after that you will understand how things work and you will get to know about it.

There is a paid accelerator from btc.com : https://pushtx.btc.com/#/ If you do not mind paying to get your transaction acclerated then this is an alternative to viabtc. @OP bitcoin wasn't as slow as what is happening these days, as bitcoin gains more usrs and the more transactions happening the network becomes busy and because of that a lot of transaction are being late to be confirmed. No need to panic or be frustrated, next time just use  higher fee if you don't want to wait.

I really miss those old days when a confirmation took just 10 minutes and you didn't need to think about fees.