Originally posted on 01/24/2018:

Quote Originally Posted by Dan Kelly View Post
My bitcoin transaction finally went through, it took 16 days. Just from my very trivial experience, I would gladly use a cryptocurrency with reasonable and quick transaction factors - I am no one to follow when it comes to cryptocurrency, but I believe bitcoin is in for a steep drop in value because of transaction costs and time =


https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/24/stel...r&par=sharebar

Best of Luck
A "Helper App" called Lightning Network is due for release in coming months. And wallets will be upgrading to native Segwit compatibility this year too.

Both of these are supposed to return bitcoin transfers to eventually being near instant and near free.

Until then, if your book takes BitcoinCash, LiteCoin or Ether, it's a good choice to use those instead until these upgrades happen.