Here are some more
FACTS for you:
After I made my last post I sent transaction to myself, confirmed no problems AS ALWAYS. About 4 min in-fact, you beauty.
https://blockchain.info/tx-index/b907009f9ef1e20d9d8d983e2c72186230be91ccfaf742e68caa1b95eb675af8Hearn, Gavin et al also confirmed as FUD spreading propagandists.
Block size increase is not needed now, when it will be needed it will be increased, the core roadmap is the best plan going forward.
Everything else is based on a FUD manufactured crisis.
In the last month,
I've sent around 15 transactions of varying sizes from between about .045 BTC and 10 BTC, and each time i paid around .0002BTC in transaction fees.
Each of my transaction received at least 3 confirmations within about 15 minutes. I cannot recall any delay in receiving the transaction longer than 15 minutes in that set of transactions in the past month.
so yes, I agree, there currently does not seem to be any meaningful problem, and there seem to be several possibly consensus based solutions in the works...
Accordingly, I still have troubles understanding when the blocksize and/or scaling issues are presented as "an emergency."
When the avg. blocktime is 10 minutes how does each of your transactions receive at least 3 confirmations within 15 minutes?
I use the recommended fee in my electrum wallet yet I have had bad luck getting my transactions included in the first block. It oft times takes 3 blocks to get included, I seem to run into those empty blocks on a regular basis.