Quote from: Tek-Ti on April 12, 2013, 06:31:54 PM

But seriously, I admire the initiative. But fiat tends to make things difficult since electronic payment is not designed to be as decentralized as bitcoin...

Anyhow, distributed systems (preferably homogenous aka peer-to-peer) and security is quite my call. Working on a MSc degree in it too. Resources are exquisite thou.

So like I said you need to be funded. I'm also working on an MS but I'm not such a good programmer as many others so I can only be of service to help theoretically as I don't want to have the responsibility of writing low level code for this. I think the best design should win and I'd gladly help to peer review it, and I think the best developer should lead. I don't assume I'm the best, I just want the best to be chosen.

My advice? A call for white papers, proposals and designs on a next generation protocol. We probably have enough people with advanced degrees or IT background to peer review it. This peer review process in my opinion should be the standard and I don't understand why we don't have a dedicated mailing list specifically for idea propositions, peer review, white papers, and the like. The best ideas should be voted up, the problems we will face in the future will continuously become harder to solve, and the peer review and scientific method are the best way of solving it.

At the same time once the best solutions are found then we have to actually fund them. Why would we expect anyone to dedicate all their time to developing this for free and if they did it would take far too long considering how time sensitive this is. So lets at least find out if the community is willing to pay and how much and that is why I made this thread. If enough people pledge in this thread then the demand is there and it can be taken to the next level whatever that is. I'm looking at this swarm client proposal https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=87763.0 thread and it's got many backers. There are other threads on this site getting pledges and funding, so why can't we do that for perhaps the most important single issue facing Bitcoin?