The Bitcoin network works perfectly fine and always has. The issue you are referring to was during a DOS attack on the network, which still wasn&#x27;t an issue if you paid slightly higher fees to prioritize your transaction. The developer split on the blocksize increase was pretty heated for a while, but has largely blown over due to Bitcoin still working and the sky refusing to fall as some predicted. However, scaling is still a major issue that some very smart people are working on.