Wow interesting.
I think we misunderstood each other a bit in question 7), but your answer just taught me soo much more than I had expected. I think the misunderstand is caused by my idea that blocks were gathered and controlled by the coinbase and not by the pool, so this brings up a couple of more questions. Again thanks for the help:
8 ) So is it correct that the individual pool (or in solo mining cases, the miner) that gathers each transaction in to blocks and then hashes that block for the block reward and transaction fee?
9) If each pool/miner chooses what transactions to put in their blocks (ofcourse prioritizing those with the highest fees attached to them), are there then a large "sea" of unconfirmed transactions with too low fees?
10) Is it correct to assume that a block must contain 232*D hashes of transactions before it can be hashed, or what controls that each block contains the necessary amount of transactions in order to claim the block reward?
I will now roll the dice and hope that the troll will continue to sleep soundly in his cave.