Transactions are too slow. Will someone fix it or do we need a better coin?
Transactions are not slow. It is the number of confirmations that somehow slow down your transactions. Confirmation differ from one site to another some have one, others have two, three, four, five , six, seven, and eight. But make sure to include a miners fee to you every transaction so that it will be more faster. Without the fee you are waiting longer than you will expect.
That is correct, you do not expect for free. But the confirmation is not that too slow there is a minimal case but not always. Because base on my experience i can not encounter the slow transaction with bitcoin.