You'd think with such designs at-hand, that I would be ecstatic and optimistic. The reason I've been somewhat dismissive about my capabilities lately, is because I nearly wasted the entire past 6 weeks trying to locate a mathematician (with strong interest or knowledge in discrete math and especially applicability to Berstein's EdDSA) who would work with me to peer review my work and also a programmer to help me implement. I am a programmer, but it just seems impractical to try to implement something of such complexity all by oneself.
I had commitments for angel investment (i.e. a controlling group was taking form) in order to hire the help, but I couldn't find anyone who is qualified that is both interested and willing to follow a few basic computer security policies. Even some of the potential angel investors (e.g. rpietila) are unwilling to institute basic computer security policies with my assistance, so it as if no one really gives a fuck about what is happening to the world.
I had one junior-level programmer express interest to work with me and he had some experience coding a block chain explorer in the past, but he refused to learn any new programming language and only is available in Javascript. I eat programming languages for breakfast. One has to wonder how someone with such myopia could really grasp the math and wide range aptitude required. So I respectfully declined.
I am dismayed. My inventions are real and could potentially save the planet, yet no one is helping.
Perhaps those mathematicians are not reading these discussions and think the world is just fine and you're being paranoid. It's very very hard to start believing the disaster is coming. And even if it is coming, to believe it will affect one's own situation too much. The concept is so far away from their daily lives. Boiling frogs and normalcy bias.
We can comprehend only the things we see in our daily lives. If we need cash we go to an ATM, if we need food we go to a store or a restaurant. Every morning we drive to work and pick up the kids on the way back home. That's the way it's always been and always will. And in the evening we watch the news on the TV and if there's something worrisome we'll forget everything about it by the time we switch off the TV before going to bed because we have enough of our own worries already and the next morning we'll have to wake up to another day just like every other day before.
We will only wake up to what's happening when it's already happened.
Not many people truly believe things will radically worsen hence do not posses the motivation, and not many people have the required math (or programming) skills and mental capacity. And the group which you need to harvest from is the intersection of those two groups. Experts in Bitcointalk who might be capable of helping are already (mentally and financially) invested in bitcoin and their big egos are probably hurt from getting their golden egg laying goose criticized by you. They will only give in when you have already beaten them.
It's almost impossible for me to believe there is a war coming,
because I don't want to believe it. Still, I fully believe things will worsen a lot, unemployment, everywhere reaching surveillance, higher and higher taxes, perhaps even interruptions to pensions and social welfare. Unless I'm already well off, me and my family are going to suffer. If you manage to pull off this scalable anonymous coin+internet with real-world use, the upside is so huge that anyone who will be there early will have a whole lot of easier time to survive the incoming misery. I just wish those capable of helping would see it as well.