After wasting 6 weeks or so recruiting numerous individuals from many different sources (e.g. I even contacted a known cryptographer from this forum and not the one I mentioned in a prior message and he did not reply again after I asked if he was affiliated with Blockstream), I think the best thing to do is to stop wasting time. I guess the point of my public rant is to acknowledge that I can't guarantee that I can do it all by myself primarily due to the M.S. and the fact that the math is stretching my knowledge and I am lacking the energy and time to teach myself all the applicable math. If I didn't have the M.S., I'd be about 5 - 10X more productive than I am. This M.S. is a handicap. But sometimes I do still perform for some hours (or even a couple of days) at the level I was doing before the M.S.. I can't really objectively assess the damage done by the M.S. (and pleeeaaase don't suggest I go see a Philippine doctor, they are the ones that butchered my eye![1]). It might be milder than my assessment, but more likely it is more severe, because it is a slow process so we humans adjust. For example, I usually forget that I am blind in one eye. I don't notice it any more. When I was first blinded, it was very uncomfortable.

I think another reason I tried to find collaborators is I was thinking I should try to be more of a team player. I was trying to adjust to what I think the community would want. But in hindsight, I should not do that. The community is not more knowledgeable than me at this stage of the project. I've been doing this sort of stuff for my entire adult life.

As they say, take the bull by the horns and "get 'er done".

[1] There is one other option. If I did get perhaps $10,000 in funding I could go to Australia immediately for a fecal transplant. This has been shown to cure M.S. in patients that were in much worse condition than I am (up to 15 years without a relapse thus far and those with reduced gait, had their gait restored). I am planning to do this after I would launch any altcoin, and I really do not like to stop and go do that now. But if that would work, it would make a lot of sense to go do it now. Apparently it requires a few weeks of transplants. The cost is high. I have no medical insurance. I am undecided about whether I should seek funding to go do that now. Can't be 100% sure it will work. Also there are some risks, as I read that some lady who got a fecal transplant from her obese sister, became obese herself after that. Apparently it can alter the biology of our metabolism. The Australian clinics are doing a battery of tests on the donors and they probably don't give you the fecal matter from the same donor on every transplant. Also they would probably require to run a litany of tests on me, because I have no medical records. Thus I have no idea how high the cost could be.