As of right now, the number has decreased to 240k. It was nearly 300k about 24 hours ago. Things are actually slowly starting to normalize.
I'm sorry that you lost faith on Bitcoin, but you should've known this could happen. The scaling problem is well documented. The roadmap probably didn't expect it to get this bad this soon. The growth has been astronomical the past few days, with futures trading opening and stuff. This is still somewhat a good problem to have. What I do know is that fixes are on the way, and I'd rather wait until then. Good luck to you.
but this already happened since last few week, and number unconfirmed transaction still more than 200K. Its mean lot people transactions got stuck on network for few days even weeks. And fee to get confirmed is about 100+ USD/trx. This about to blow up, wait until more people pissed off with unconfirmed transactions....
And there no solution in next few month, there some new about lightning network, but it will take at least 6 month to implement on real network....its too loong.