if having 100k transactions stuck in the mempool for a day or two while having to pay dollars instead of pennies in fees to get your transaction through is considered smooth, then yeah... its been freakin butter.
you can use an accelerator, the trick is to put 2/3 of the fee anyway and plus the accelerator, if you still use 10k satoshi it's obviously that you will get your tx stuck
The governments and big corporations have found the Blockchain is a magical tool to be exploted for commercial gaining while the Bitcoin they think is a threat for banks. I will soon publish the full Bitcoin Deffintion Papers to the attention of the governments and those bankers paricullarly the central bankers. Bankers have nothing to be scared of Bitcoin. Bitcoin and Blockchain are insefarable and Bitcoin is a superior financial product and service system than any other existing financial service system or product. Blockchain is gaining popularity beside Bitcoin is quite interesting but I have discovered a new methods of running unlimited transactions globally with full security and transparency. There will be no confirmation problem at all, as the new protocol will have super computational features involvement for unlimited faster confirmation. It will deffinitely assist the Bitcooin to move forward to the next stage.
not that i really think you are satoshi but...besides the tx problem which is not a real problem, solution are there just consensus is not, what other features we can except to improve bitcoin to a whole new level? automated escrow build in the client for example?
i like that the client one day will have everything, decentralized exchange, built-in escrow, explorer etc...