There's plenty of very intelligent people working on understanding and improving Bitcoin's core technologies and resistance to attack.
Really?Not to undermine anyone's useful input into the project, but to be honest, from this perspective it looks more like for the last two years or so, these "very intelligent people" have mostly been busy with "working on understanding".
What we're lacking most is people doing the ugly and boring work, and the payment protocol definitely fits that description.
I totally understand you. I also find boring almost every work that I do only because I get paid for it.And it is especially boring when I know that what I am working on is going to be useless after all.
