Hi,
I'm a software developer who has been involved with bitcoin related things for a couple of years now. I started mining two years ago (before the first big bubble) and have been interested ever since. I'm currently doing computer security research on bitcoin and related technologies, and would like access to some of the forums so I can discuss the paper "Bitter to Better - How to Make Bitcoin a Better Currency" (
http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-642-32946-3_29).
Thanks,
Clark