Quote from: TalkingAntColony on May 30, 2013, 04:42:19 PM

Yes it seems true that the solution finder has no way to protect their claim without mining their own block. I suppose you could add extra conditions to require certain public keys, such as to issue the bounty to specific individuals. You could for instance make a contract with a supercomputing company to find a solution by requiring their public key and signature in addition to whatever other conditions in the script. The problem there is that the funds are locked up unless there is some backup key to redeem them if the company fails to find a solution. Regardless, I think we will see more complex uses for output scripts as time goes on...

Yeah, scripts have HUGE potential
The problem is security and developers' unwillingness to accept more op codes (ie making them standard)