Confirmations ARE EVERYTHING. You can't accept a transaction without them. Why do they take hours to day? Bullshit. Let's get a coin out there that fixes this. We aren't living in the days of 300 baud modems.
They only take hours when the person making the purchase chooses to use a really small fee.
So if they are delayed in receiving product because they chose to use a small fee when paying, that's the buyer's fault, not the merchants.
I use larger transaction fee so that confirmation starts quickly. And it is still small.
Yes, but how many noobies knows this, and get frustrated with Bitcoin because it's so slow? The wallet providers have their own default benchmark for
relative fast confirmations and higher fees, but if this is set too low, the users will struggle. Some people determine their own miners fee, and they do
not even know about this problem. Make sure you pay a higher than default fee for prioritized transactions to avoid these hassles.