Quote from: handsoff on June 14, 2016, 10:39:50 PM

Isn't Bitcoin Core supposed to adjust fees in order to make transactions go through faster? Default payments I make take like 6 hours. And blockchain. info lists them as "high priority" "will be confirmed very soon"... what can I do about this?

You can adjust the fees manually before broadcasting to try to outbid others trying to transact.
You can find "recommended" fees here, https://bitcoinfees.21.co/
(with any luck, you wont mess up and send all your bitcoins to the miner by mistake)
Or use rbf and keep upping the fee as required.
Neither is a realistic option for the average user.

In the battle for scarce (1mb) block space, your fee was (assuming you did pay a "recommended" fee) superseded by higher "recommended" fees.
If more than a few thousand transactions are paying the same fee as you, a higher "recommended" fee will be put in place.
You are now less prioritised than any new transaction with the higher "recommended" fee.
If there become lots of higher fee transactions in the mempool, (maybe a block is not found for a while) you will be pushed down the priority queue.

Not much else to do, this is cores planned fee market in operation.
Completely unworkable BS about to unravel.

One of my explanations of why your fee was possibly not enough for fast confirmation.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1511347.msg15218943#msg15218943