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by wolco5 1977 days ago
You hurt the traders and actually make the network super cheap and fast that it can be used to buy drugs again.
2 comments

It was never fast and never will be. Block time is 10min since ever.
Confirmations can take a day.. 10 minutes would be like an etransfer.
Confirmation isn't defined you can wait however many blocks you want to be added after the block with your Tx. The chance of your Tx being changed/removed gets smaller and smaller but there is no end.

This also never chanced so its irrelevant Bitcoin is still as slow as on day one, if you wait for the same number of blocks before you consider it "final".

:)