14% are not pools and most accept free transactions, 17% is ASICMINER which accepts free transactions as well. The rest "high" fees are a free market regulating itself and that is clear as the hashing power get redistributed between pools by simple guys like me and the typical Joesixgigashashminer.

if an "elite" like slush choose 1 BTC as fees he will not hinder the network more than his variance of finding a block which will delay your transaction mostly by nothing and in 6-7% of the transactions, by a couple of minutes, if ever.  


The reason was not for better profits for the miners and a quick calculation of mining fees against block reward will show how absurd that is when you compare to the reason we all know, Which is to stop spamming the network and inflating the block chain. As well as planting the seed for the fees free market mechanism.


The voting is done with hashing power so when I move my mining operation from slush pool to deep bit that is considered voting for a different pool operator and that is exactly what happened when deepbit reached 51%+ of the network.

Further more on this subject I would also add that slush and others are working on extending the adding features to stratum to allow the pools miners to choose specific transactions to include.


Then dig in by all means and help out. Go to extends of forking and creating an alt coin but please don't let all what I wrote to you go in vain. I am not trying to discourage you or plainly say you are wrong. I am trying to help you as much as I can to inform you of any information that I know regarding the subject. Now it is just your part of checking the validity or my responses and the rationale regarding the works-in-progress/done of the points you questioned of Bitcoin.

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Depends whom you are talking to. An economist, a merchant, a nerd, an anarchist, a socialist, a cop, a farmer, a teenager, a grandmother, a gangster, a monk, or any combination of the above will obviously have their own unique perspective and interests.

I like what Paysius did, for example - they have a pitch for merchants, and a pitch for "customers." Go check it out.

Well, given that they're doing it wholesale, and this is just one tiny fudge, aren't there bigger fish to fry? I mean, all he did was leave out "could."

In most of those areas, less red means less water, which means no food.

If BFL is taken to court, then no one gets their miners. If they are not, then people get their miners, they just get them late.

Given that a 60GH/s single is still slated to make $10k/month, I'm sure most first-day orderers would much rather take the non-litigation route and have a money machine pumping out as much in one day as they'd be likely to see in reward from any lawsuit.