-clients that don't need to download the whole freaking block chain ;-)
Plenty already exist! Multibit, BitcoinJ, Electrum, etc...
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-price stability (so I can put an item for sale on a web page and not have to adjust the price every other day).
That won't happen for a long time. Bitcoin is a new thing and is going to be a wild currency to exchange. I would suggest just writing a script to change the prices automatically.
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-built in reputation features ... it could still be anonymous, but it would be nice to see that an address has done some deals and has some positive feedback
Not a bad idea to possibly have a reputation listing like they do at bitcoin OTC, but for the entire community, and maybe even integrate a client to utilize that...
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-built in escrow features
Humans will always have to handle an escrow so I'm not sure how it would be built in...
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-backed by something else of value -- Bitcoin blazed the trail and it's not back by anything other than good marketing and perception. Bitcoin does have value now, and so it could be used to back a new virtual currency.
I made a post about this further along in the first page of this thread.
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What about you guys? Surely Bitcoin has some features you would like to tweak, no?
We do! And we're always working on them.
