I just want to say that Evolution is probably not going to be explained in detail for quite some time.  It might even start out closed sourced just like DarkSend did.  The reason I'm saying this is because of 2 things Evan said.  He said he doesn't want to lose first mover's advantage and he also said he want's to reveal everything slowly (presumably because it's a large chunk of information, and he want's to control how people learn/see the plan)

I think honestly, publicizing a white paper wouldn't make things so confusing, even if it's super challenging to understand.  People around here are massively intelligent and there are several that would understand and explain to the public.  So personally, I think it's all about keeping the ideas from being stolen.  And I'm all for that.

So what does this mean for the rest of us?  Well, 1st, it means we have to trust the technology is real.  Since Evan has come through so many times, I have no problem with that.  I also don't see this as being impossible to achieve, so again, no problem with trusting the core team.  I also think we'll have a working version before we have open code, just like with DarkSend.

Ahem... That's something that would get some seriously bad feeling from some of the geeks amongst us, open source isn't just a method, its a philosophy and there's a strong "us and them" aspect to it. Darksend wasn't released closed source, you and many others wanted the source kept secret on release but Evan went with keeping things open

After all, we are a decentralized currency, no? So if someone wants to help developing, it would be a good idea for Evan to release his plans so others can start working on it, even as volunteers! As far as I know, bitcoin has a lot of volonteers working on the code, not many are paid.