What you describe is precisely the reason that bitcoin is trash. Max 3-5 transactions / sec, with an arbitrarily long wait for a chain update (no finality). What that means is the *bitcoin network itself* is trash. Its fucking awful, but these fucking proto-niggers keep buying and selling that shit, hoping to fuck someone out of a few dollars, because that is literally all you can do with the bitcoin network. Bitcoin “trading” is a jerk-off zero-sum game played by clueless zero-sum cool-kid jerk-offs. Pure garbage. Now, there *are* crypto-networks (aka “crypto coins”) that most certainly do not suck, but they sure as fuck aren’t bitcoin (or anything like it), and they *sure as fuck* are productive, capable, positive-sum investments, much like equity instruments, equity derivatives, etc. Bitcoin is not crypto. Bitcoin is someone’s worthless trash-nigger pet project, with a price-to-lol ratio supported by (((money managers))) who rely on the hair on-fire idiocy of people, each of whom thinks he’s 0.27% smarter than every other hair-on-fire idiot, all of whom are playing a zero-sum game with zero comprehension of what they’re doing. The (((money niggers))) love that. Bitcoin is garbage.