Hi Everyone,

I understand that Bitcoin itself is a distributed P2P system which makes it difficult to attack as a whole but other services that Bitcoin depends on for day to day functions can be attacked with Denial of Services or other hacking methods which are causing Bitcoin some pains lately.

Here are just some thoughts from random neurons that have been firing in my head lately.

P2P Forums
P2P Forums like the days of Usenet dedicated to Bitcoin.  What is Bitcoin with out some type of communication among Bitcoin users?  With forum.bitcoin.org being unreliable lately I think a p2p forum method could possibly work.  Maybe posts/threads could work like namecoin/bitcoin and send messages from peer to peer along with having some small fee to stop spammers.  Even though it would mostly be pseudo anonymous posts could also be authenticated with public/private keys.

P2P Exchanges
A P2P exchange may be able to be set up with the bids and asks sent into the p2p universal consciousness.  A trust rating system could be established to rate sellers and buyers.  Exchange of funds could be through outside services like direct cash, dwolla, paypal, Western Union, etc.



-Dukejer