Bitcoin block confirmations already take a long time. Now the block conformation has become slower due to increased transaction fees.
Not really, just that you now have to pay so high for your transaction to be confirmed and added into a block, if you use the fee rate for high priority, you transaction should be confirmed in a few minutes.
I went to do a bitcoin transaction last saturday where transaction fee of $4 was supposed to be deducted from my personal wallet but it got rejected after the transaction was pending for a long time. Now trying to do that bitcoin transaction again showing a $19 fee. Which caused me a lot of suffering
That is because the mempool congestion has gotten worse since
last Saturday, right now this spamming going on in the BTC blockchain does not seem to want to slow down and people who spend BTC on little things like taking a beer in the bar can no longer do so, it is crazy and if it continues, it may be hard to convince people that BTC is still a currency.