Its because you are loosing miners left and right. No miners means no transactions processed, at a difficulty of over 46 billion, and a value of only 200 to 230 bucks, its just not profitable to mine bitcoin. All your small miners you guys think are worthless are now mining other coins and flipping them for bigger profits, all the big mining compuonds are bogged down with huge difficulties.
Amazingly ignorant and incorrect on multiple levels. My last post to you before you are ignored, his post history is depressing. I recommend everyone else ignore this troll as well.
Difficulty is increasing steadily-
https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficultyWhich means blocks are being found quicker than average and more miners are coming on board.
Yes, we need a hardfork to increase the block limit but there is no evidence to suggest that confirmations are slower than normal.