if the blocks were 20mb, there would be no controversy as all tx's would fit happily with no bottleneck..
yeah. I really think, that we need some change with this block magic asap, because now waiting almost hour for FIRST confirmation, even I paid fee. we should be lucky, that bitcoin is not massively adopted yet, because this is like waiting 1h for email delivery..
Use blackcoin. Way faster and more secure and you wouldn't have the issue of pools blacklisting transactions.