Try to set your transaction fee to 10,000 satoshi. Then try again.

Blockchain is not as good as coinbase. Use coinbase to avoid transaction fees and have a much more secure account.

I make it through sig campaigns as well as buying them at a low price and then selling them when it has gone higher. I have made $400 that way

You can mine it to get Bitcoin but due to its high hash power, mining is not profitable! You can buy it or do some job paying in Bitcoin! IMO you need to learn more knowledge about what is Bitcoin and how to use it!
You can also use faucets, but they arent that profitable either. Bitcointalk sig campaigns are one of the best ways to earn BTC if you do not have a job yet.

A very good way is similar to gambling. You buy them, and then sell them when the price has gone up. I managed to make 1.2BTC that way. However, be careful when you buy/sell as it will depend in the price. Always choose the right time to do so.

Bitcoin is becoming more and more popular and more people have invested their money in bitcoins and have left the big banks. I dont know about you, but if I were the big banks, i would be concerned about how this is going to affect my business

I don't know, I kind of feel like bitcoin is the Yahoo of digital currency, It works, it's popular, and people have used it since the birth of this movement. But sooner or later the google of digital currency is going to come along with a vastly improved way of doing it and leave bitcoin in the dust. I don't think that's happened yet or is even about to happen, but these things happen all the time in tech. Friendster > MySpace > Facebook is another example. One dominates till something better you never knew you wanted comes along.

Keep in mind I'm not an expert by any means, who knows what will happen? If anyone did know I'm imagine they would become very rich.

For some reason, in Australia, you cannot buy bitcoins. Why has the government banned it? It has remained a mistery for me and i cannot figure it out. Can someone help me out on this one?

My best guess is that transactions of very low amounts (and especially very low fees) are the ones with looooong confirmation times. 

Two examples:

1)  A few days ago bitmixer sent a small payment to ME, but it took some 40 + hours to confirm (as they sent the payment with a close to $0.00 miner's fee).  I did get it confirmed, but it took a long time.

2)  As a test during perhaps the worst of the "stress test" / spamming / attack (July 6), I sent myself a small transaction of about BTC0.005, but with a large fee: BTC0.0006 ($0.16).  The transaction was confirmed on the next block.  Reconfirmed on the one after that.

Probably by opening a survey on ebay, or amazon to see how many people actually have and use bitcoin.

I think that the main problem of bitcoins (and that must be ranked as the number one of downsides) it is that he is not physical money. This make bitcoin usable only in internet and the ways that the money can be used in internet are limited. Then not to many people use internet and are even fewer those who make purchases there.

I have already sold 10 BTC when the price went rather hight a few weeks ago. I made around 3 Bitcoin profit this way

Coinbase is probably the best alternate to blockchain. There is no transaction fee and the transaction & conformation time is very fast. This is what i currently use.

There are some bitcoin movies out there, but i personally dont know any and have not watched any. Why make a movie about bitcoin? I think it is a bit pointless

I am also investing in technology. Buy and sell them in bitcoins and make profit over an extended period of time

Who else here wants the souvenir dragon lore in CS:GO? what is my main goal with BTC

What is the largest amount that you guys have donated? I unfortunately have not donated anything, but i am planing to do so

Well there are a lot of things, and I'm not sure where to start. As far as changes are concerned, we've yet to see what is going to come out of the block size debate (i.e. are we going with a increase in blocksize or sidechains, lightning network or something else). We should see pruning implemented completely (hopefully) in the next major version (0.12?), which is partially implemented now.
We've yet to see Gemini exchange released (Winklevoss), which should be fully regulated and built on rock-solid compliance.

Adoption and investments keep growing and we can not really know where this will lead us. We are yet to see a big online retailer such as Ebay or Amazon to start accepting Bitcoin (which some of us are eager to see). The block reward should also halve in 2016 (July 27th).

If you loose your cash wallet what happens? Finder of it steals your money.
If you loose / get stolen your hardware wallet; "some people may steal your money" (with 0.000001% chance).
Till the thief extract your priv keys; you can transfer them somewhere safe.

So; it's still safer than fiat.

I certainly think that the price of bitcoin will go up, just like it doubled its value in 1.5 months. But since then, the price has dropped and is around $350 currently for 1.00 BTC