Some people make it sound like its so trivial a task. "Just do it. Just hardfork and fix it". It's not a question of acting faster. It's a question of figuring out the (best) fucking solution in the first place. This is extremely complex tech. If Bitcoin is a calculator, moving numbers from here to there, Ethereum is a fucking Excel spreadsheet. As a software engineer, it annoys me to high heaven when muggles think it's so simple. Not to mention programmable blockchains are absolutely brand new tech. It's not like we have 30+ years of experience and understanding to fall back on. We're in uncharted space here boys.

I'd also  remind people that every other coin based on blockchain is facing this same problem, and none have a solution that would enable faster processing than what Ethereum is already doing.

I don't care neo or another.

If ethereum network stays like this, some blockchain will take its place at one point. They need to act faster than this.

https://etherscan.io/chart/pendingtx

When will it get better?

It is getting annoying and also icos don't send bounties because it is too expensive now.

We need a hard fork.

I'd be lying if I claimed to know what the long term price should be. Price discovery should happen naturally as a result of the free markets. With that being said, based on the current total cryptocurrency market cap, the limited circulating coin supply, the talented Devs, and what I believe to be superior tech of Decred, I think the price of Decred should be over $1000 relative to the other coins once the attention shifts from quick buck pump and dump coins to legitimate society altering technologies.

The reason why I think the price of Decred must be stated in terms relative to other coins and the total cryptocurrency market is because to some degree cryptocurrency is still an experiment. A few assumptions are being made in order to get to these growing valuations.

1) That the consensus mechanisms underlying POW and/or POS cannot be undermined. To this date there have been no successful hacks or exploits on bitcoins code but in the unlikely event that one is found there would be a devastating correction on the entire market. 9+ years of the brightest white and black hat hackers attacking bitcoin's network have not found anything so this is a great indicator of confidence in the network but on the other hand look at the latest security vulnerability in intel chips.. anything is possible. The stakes are high but so are the rewards. For the first time in human history people have the option to be in control of their own money (you are not in control of the money you store in banks).

2) Mass adoption and acceptance of cryptocurrency as a store of value is coming and will lead to large institutions and 401k funds to begin allocating a percentage of assets into cryptocurrency as part of a diversified portfolio.

3) They will be able to scale. This is not just Decred's challenge but all cryptocurrency will need to be able to increase the number of transactions per second if they are to cut out the middlemen (visa/banks) and be used for everyday transactions (like daily coffee) as promised in the original bitcoin whitepaper. This is an active area of research and development.

And a couple Decred specific assumptions:

4) Decred's governance and superior tech is finally recognized by the market. The truth is that many people haven't even heard of Decred. If Decred is added to more exchanges such as Coinbase and exchanges in the eastern markets, awareness and acceptability will increase. Yes this is true for all coins but the point here is that if people had more time to understand the technology behind the coins they are buying they would understand that Decred is a better mousetrap. Who wouldn't buy the better mousetrap?

5) Decred is resistant to forking which siphons off value from the main chain and errodes confidence. This is by design because Decred stakeholders have a voice via stake voting unlike bitcoin. People don't want to have to ask themselves if they are holding the right "flavor" of bitcoin every morning due to the endless forks that are a result of their dysfunctional governance.

6) Decred's performance relative to other cryptocurrencies will increase. Decred can totally replace bitcoin, bitcoin does nothing that Decred doesn't do better. It can also siphon value from other coins with weaker governance (DASH) and if the privacy features are good can siphon value from the leading anonymous coins (ZEC, ZEN, ZCL, XMR, etc). This has not happened yet but is likely to happen since Decred in theory is much more agile than other currencies due to it's built in voting. As was seen in the speed in which lightning network integration was proposed, voted on, and nearly integrated Decred can quickly implement new original features as well as assimilate the best features from other cryptocurrencies and pivot the intended use as directed by the stakeholders votes. (Decred Dev's please correct me if I am over promising but this is how I understand it)

7) This is a more minor point. When Decred Asics are introduced it might remove the constant sell pressure caused by Claymore Dual mining. I'm not sure that I buy that Decred asic owners are more likely to hold onto coins. I also haven't decided whether I think that asics are good or bad for the network but I think this is worth noting as removal of significant sell pressure would quicken the price discovery.

If those assumptions are true then the total cryptocurrency marketcap will raise to at least several trillion and therefore in the coming years the price will increase many fold. No one will believe me if I post a long term sustainable price because human minds are trained to think linearly however increases in network usage affect the price of a limited supply of coins exponentially. I think it will go beyond bitcoin's current value.  

Hello! Does anyone know what functions a transaction-manager will perform in the system?

Hello! Can you tell us more about the orderbook infrastructure?

That comparison won't be worth much. The PoS implementation for Ethereum looks quite different from other PoS implementations. It's much more sophisticated than simple "stake and gain interest" PoS.

We put a man on the moon in 1969 trust me it can be done with sharding and separate universes that can share information together

 Sharding is a type of database partitioning that separates very large databases the into smaller, faster, more easily managed parts called data shards. The word shard means a small part of a whole.

Ethereum is looking more good then ever now. It looks like we are going to break $1000 today sometime. There trading gives very good impression which pushed the price at above $850. It is not big distance to get ETH there in four digits to find new floor now. The time seems to have come now for this.

By the end of the year it is possible to reach 1000$ because in some exchange already the value reached to 1000$. What a year for all cryptocurrency lovers and those who believe in Ethereum are now making good amount for holding long term coins.