&gt;That&#x27;s going to be changed fairly soon.<p>No, it&#x27;s not.  We have already seen four individual proposals to the network to increase the block size.  Each requires a consensus by the miners and each was shot down.<p>The miners are incentivized <i>not</i> to increase the transaction rate, because they profit from the increased competition and fees from smaller blocks.  By design, the decentralized control of bitcoin is actually what is preventing it from improving itself.