Quote from: Fireball on June 23, 2011, 06:21:25 PM

What matters to this thread: I'm a developer (nearly all aspects of development, including high performance web servers, networking, security research and consulting), with financial knowledge (stock markets, derivatives, quantum finance).

My area of interest in bitcoin is stock exchange and derivatives trading, and I'm working towards creating the first real bitcoin futures exchange.

However, it's a bit sad to see many one-day projects pop up here and there, which ruins people's believes, and makes it harder for more serious projects to gain attention ("look, yet another stock exchange developer"). Or when someone pops up and says "hey, here is the project which conquered the world" and shows some amateur half-made website. It's fine that it's amateur, nothing is perfect in the beginning, but just don't say that your project already conquered the world.

You would not believe how many websites no longer exist that were created when the internet was new. Many tried and did not last...yet the internet grew rapidly into something HUGE. Some sites did last though. This is no different....people trying to create projects or develop sites for bitcoin use. It is early in the game...some will fail while others succeed. The main point is that people are TRYING! and that is what matters.