Yes. All of it.

This is not about building an ecosystem or changing the world, it is simply about building a miner based around the best suggestions/ideas presented here. Nor are the plans for said miner to be mass produced per se which removes the need for most of the Corporate overhead you call for.

I mean, "design , prototype, test and deploy cycles under quality control and management supervision"? The final design is not up to a vote, it is up to the head of the project, Sidehack. Period.

Folks behind this thread have seen previous hardware projects fail and fall apart precisely because of the design-by-committee approach and worse yet -- direct investor input/pressure from folks with little to no skills on the technical matters they are pushing their wants/idea for -- that you are advocating. For one example, WASP is a great Poster Child for that. It's end result was endless discussions over minutia, continual scope-creep and tons of wasted time and monies all of which finally drowned the project in bureaucracy and killed it.

I for one am all for the Lone Ranger (cowboy) approach. Then again, like Sidehack I am one as well (though my biz is industrial lasers).

Now, does Genius need backers to fund building/testing/implementing their ideas? Sure. I for one am grateful to have hooked up with one back in the 70's when I was at Photon Sources, he was their head of aftermarket sales. We soon left together to form our own company and have not once looked back ever since. He was also wise enough to let me do what I do so well with zero interference while he concentrated on sales of what I come up with and build, running the business, and finding capital to fund the R&D toys, er, equipment I need.