As hard as it might be to see, I really believe the crisis in front of us is one of perception as opposed to anything technical. Perceptions are manageable while the real work of sorting through the technical issues is taken out of the limelight.
The network is working and it's still relatively cheap (5cents pre TX)
But we have threads that are titled "
why is my TX not confirming ?? " or somthing to that effect
Newbies are using bitcoin for the first time and are having a hard time, with their BTC tie up seemly never to confrim, and they conclude that bitcoin is not all that it's cracked up to be....
is this a problem?
I remember when i was a newbie, i would check over and over waiting for the first 6 confirmations, everything went smoothly, but I didnt fully trust that it would go smoothly, i was afraid my money would get lost or somthing. slowly my confidence in the system grew as i used it more and understood it more.
not sure i would have be able to build any confidence had i started using bitcoin today....