For several days, there are problems with unconfirmed transactions. While yesterday there were 130,000 "stuck"
transactions, everything became much worse overnight.
Problems with transactions in the bitcoins world are not something new. Despite the huge net cost of this network, the problems of its scaling is becoming more problematic each month. Bitcoin network can not handle a huge number of transactions. Such problems have been known for a long time, but there is no rapid and easy solution. Even the activation of SegWit did not affect the number Unconfirmed transactions.
Unconfirmed transactions continue to flood net Scaling bitcoins will require a lot of time and effort. Although developers are working on solutions, companies are trying to realize. With the fact that after the adoption of SegWit, it is obvious that Unconfirmed transactions will remain a big problem.
It is also not easy to solve this problem, thanks to the rather fragmented community. All this is even more pushing bitcoin to become storage of value at the same level as gold. Considering the fact that this was originally intended for the actual currency.
With more than 220,000 unconfirmed transactions flooding memory, a complex situation is created. While the network can not process several transactions at once, these problems remain. At the moment, Bitcoin's network processes 3.9
transactions per second, which is unacceptable. Moreover, these backlogs make users pay higher commission, although this is not a reliable solution. Higher fees do not solve congestion, but only make others wait longer, while the miners fill their pockets.
While it is not clear yet, where did these unconfirmed transactions. When the price of bitcoins grows, many people try to cash out before the course changes. Unfortunately, now practically it is impossible to transfer funds to exchanges and back. It makes a very it is difficult for people to actively sell their BTC, if they were not in the exchange purse.
Disappointment for all BTC enthusiasts is already evident.