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Transactions are confirmed through the mining of new blocks. There is no other way to confirm transactions, and it's the purpose of block-mining.

• akerro 10y ago
  Ah, ok thanks. SO the only way to fix it is by deploying new miners.
  • alemhnan 10y ago
    If you deploy more miners the average difficult to mine each block will increase (as for the bitcoin rules) so you are back to square one.
    • akerro 10y ago
      Yup, I expected this.
      • josu 10y ago
        The way to fix this is increasing the size of the blocks, which is trivial from a technical standpoint, but it has some implications that the current majority of miners are not willing to accept.
  • sanswork 10y ago
    No that wouldn't actually fix it. There is a limit to how many transactions can be processed regardless of how many miners are running. Adding more miners doesn't actually increase capacity just the difficulty.