Are there any? 

I have an idea for a project but it needs smart contracts and real time transactions.  what are my options?

A coin needs a purpose.  Apart from trade it, what can you do with BTG?  Probably nothing.

Imagine the queues in the shops if Visa batched their transactions up and authorised your payments in 10 mins blocks.  That is probably the main reason Btc hasn't (and probably wont) taken off.  People just don't want to wait.  Even if they halved it and halved it again, that would still be 2.5 mins waiting for payment to clear.  The lightning Network is ok but if your main selling point is something that just bypasses the main protocol, then why bother with the main protocol. 

If we have this huge pool of miners out there, then why are transaction speeds so slow?  Surely the more miners, the faster it should go.  If not, there is something fundamentally wrong with the algorithm.

Can anyone really think of a good use of a blockchain other than a cryptocurrency?  Something that gets changed by a lot of different parties, that therefore needs to be public and verifiable.

Bitcoin and Bittorrent.  Both got "Bit" in their name, both out to change the world, both mainly used illegally.  See how that worked out for Bittorrent?

Personally, I would like to see the end of signature campaigns.  Too many threads are just people spamming with a "oh yes, i agree/disagree" response, just to get their sig count up.  Get rid of signature campaigns and postings would drop by 3/4 but be a darn sight more useful. 

I would certainly subscribe if the Simpsons launched their own ICO.

Hey, perhaps we can do what Ethereum does.  Fork the blockchain, roll it back so he doesn't lose his BTC and then carry on as normal.  

Thanks. 

Task:Make Martin repeatedly mention 'Blockchain' without defining it. 

Bitcoin is now worhtless and Bart says Homer should have jumped to Ethereum!

Good job Homer only put half his life savings into it.

On the positive side you have only lost half as much $ as if you had been hacked at Christmas.

There is a new update for the "Simposns Tapped Out" mobile game and it is all about Bitcoin!!  Martin has got a lot of money from somewhere, Bart asks where he got it and Martin says mining bitcoin.  Your first task is to make the kids mine Bitcoin.

Guess there must be a new episode of the Simpsons about it soon.

Does a block have to have a certain size, or amount in it?  I am not talking about mining for profit, i'm thinking about mining for my own convenience.  say i want to accept $100 and pay out $100 in btc in $10 chunks.  Give em low fees so no one else touches them.  Then just stick them in a block and mine it. 

Yeah, I tried doing that.  Someone else mentioned my address in a post so i signed something with it, sent it off and have heard nothing back.  Guess i can kiss it good bye.

Say you had a business that paid and accepted BTC but it had very low fees.  Could you set up some miners to purely handle your transactions?  I mean, you know which are your payments.  Running the miners becomes a business expense, low fees means greater take up, which means more profit.  As long as you process the payments correctly, does it matter?  

So do the miners decide which transactions go into the block they are going to mine?

In the past i have seen people offering to help when payments get stuck in block limbo.  i had a payment with a 50p ten fee on it which took months to get processed.  I guess there is some way to point a mining rig at a particular payment/transaction/block is there? If i have a stuck payment and a miner, how do i set it up?  In before RTFM.

What can I do to get it back.  I clicked on the link in the "change of email" email but I'm not sure it locked the account.  I can respond to the email mentioned in the footer and I can probably sig a message with the address associated with the account. 

What should i do?