Quote from: Memento7 on January 30, 2018, 03:26:22 PM

Hi guys, I hope this is not a cyclic topic!

It is. Lots of people have ideas. All of them are oh so valuable.

Quote from: Memento7 on January 30, 2018, 03:26:22 PM

So, I've really a great idea and concept that could work in the real world with the use of cryptocurrencies but I'm a civil engineer and, despite my passion for this world, I don't know how to move forward.
My main concern is about the ownership of my idea, because a moment after telling it's not mine anymore.
Do you have some suggestions?

Stop worrying about somebody stealing your precious idea. Your idea is worthless, and its not very good.

Hold on. I am not trying to be nasty. I will tell you a little storythe much abbreviated version.

In 2006, I had an idea for a cryptography-based digital currency. (That doesnt say much. People have been trying to build those since the 80s, the seminal early work being Chaums. What we now call cryptocurrency is the realization of a cypherpunk dream of the 90s.) I knew that at the time, I lacked the requisite skillset for building it myself. Thus, I did nothing. I did suffer the delusion that my idea was valuable.

In 200809, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper and a working prototype. His idea was so much better than mine, the comparison is laughable; and thats no coincidence, for he knew how to build his idea. If you dont know enough to put an idea to practical effect, then you dont know enough to have a good idea in the first instance.

Please. You say youre a civil engineer. What would you say if I were to tell you that I have a valuable breakthrough innovation in your domain of expertise, but I dont know enough civil engineering to build it? If youre really a civil engineer, youd laugh at me.

Ideas from people who have the knowledge are a dime a dozen. Its the implemented ones which are valuable. And ideas dreamt up without adequate knowledge are absolutely worthless.

Quote from: Memento7 on February 01, 2018, 12:59:13 AM

ehehe yea, but where to begin? I think I need years of studies and this is a really fast world.

Oh, thats more or less exactly what I told myself in 2006!

Either get moving fast, or forget about it. In the former case, you may have a chance of success if youre smart and hardworking. In the latter case, you will save yourself many wistful sighs.

(On the third hand, if you are independently wealthy, you could try to hire other people. You would need much luck for it to not be a disastrous financial sinkhole. Think, again: Could somebody without civil engineering expertise competently select a competent civil engineer? Many consultants more or less deliberately take advantage of this peculiar problem, but thats another topic.)