Yea - Google News was in beta for years... but I instinctively feel it's a different kettle of fish when you've got millions of dollars... in some cases, people's life-savings sitting in it. And I don't think Skype launched in Beta.


I've no doubt the UX thing has come up before. I was just floating the idea of people already invested in bitcoins seeing paying for professional/talented UX people as a a better investment than... just buying another $100 worth of bitcoins.

Ideally this should be set up so people can do their own skins/themes... so (as we're seeing in the rapid improvement of web based market interfaces) the improvements can be ecosystemic. I do think it needs to go deeper than that though - UX needs to be done on the language used to describe Bitcoin... because talented engineers and talented communicators aren't often the same thing.

And I think the client is in need of some talented communicators.