And here is an example of what I predicted w.r.t. to innovation originating from smaller teams.

Boolberry looks better thanhas some innovations on Monero (at least until Monero adds I2P and copies these features, then Monero has the better name).

1. It prevents the cascade of linkability when other users in your mix don't mix as much as you do (although this could lead to gridlock if not managed somehow).

2. It claims to prune the blockchain by an estimated 30 - 70% (note this is still not enough to deal with the 100s of Petabytes scaling criticism I made upthread, because it is only a constant factor). Edit: when I formerly thought deeply about pruning Cryptonote, it seemed you'd have no way to prevent someone in your mix from not spending forever, thus making pruning impossible in that case. So I have some doubt about his claim.

3. It cleverly uses block chain random data to determine the random lookup indices for memory hardness, thus in theory computation can not be traded for space. Thus it is faster with roughly the same ASIC resistance as Monero. Note this does not make it ASIC proof nor does it remove my concern that the strategy could cause a complex ASIC to appear later which would be proprietary for some longer duration thus causing centralization of mining as compared to an ASIC that was ubiquitous sooner due to not being complex (off the shelf designs being already available). I admire this idea as a short-time way to help insure CPU-only. I need to study it more to see if I can find any flaw.

4. It has a novel block chain debasement (emission) schedule based on an algorithm that relates to difficulty change. I need to study this before commenting. Edit: this is Infinium-8, not Boolberry.

My suggestion to the Monero core. Go make a deal with Boolberry immediately. Given him a lot of coins and make him your #1 developer and give him a lot of control.