There was no stress test, just people moving their bitcoins to buy Ethereum.
There was an attack. Stop posting misleading information.
Why would you choose to wait 48 hours when you could wait just minutes, it's examples like this that the public need to hear and not the other negative stuff that gets thrown around the news. Then I suppose you never really see much positive stuff in the news.
Technically if both parties trust each other then you don't need to wait much more than a few seconds. Transactions are instant, confirmations take time.
After taking out $40 from their ATM, after paying the $3 fee..
I recently had someone send me money via WU, they had to pay a few higher than 10% of the transaction sent. It's strange that some people complain now that Bitcoin has high fees (less than 10 cents for any amount) when you consider your other options.