Quote from: kmfkewm on February 17, 2012, 05:20 pmI am currently programming a fully decentralized market interface that has forum like features :) that a single person / server admin will not be able to take down due to redundancy :)with a lot of security and useability features. Give me a year to finish itkmfkewm, would it be possible to develop such a thing by outsourcing it? I'm not sure how far along your project is, so this may or may not make sense. I don't mean giving the project to somebody else, I mean giving a small piece of the project to develop to some software house or members of the open source community. Then collecting all the little pieces and integrating it into something nice i.e. you'd be less programmer and more project lead. Division of labour etc. And you could specify the requirements to be as detailed as you like.See, no matter how talented a programmer one might be, there are serious time/financial constraints on an individual that don't exist for the DEA. So it seems to me, that if you want to get 'to the next level', you've got to start organizing capital, financial and human to achieve more complex objectives. Being able to develop such systems would put us permanently ahead of LEO, it'd be a real game changer in this arms race.As for where the capital might come from, I think it would be relatively easy for a group of sellers including myself to create rounds of funding for each piece of the project, in small blocks of say 10k. There could be different types of funding structures, so that the basic skeleton of the system is mandatory to fund, whereas features that the sellers would want could be more of an optional thing, and this way you've some customer feedback on the constraints of the system. It's a rather large idea I frankly don't right now the time or money to pursue since I've so many other projects on, I'm sure you're in a similar situation, but I think we'll be talking about this again in the future, it's the kind of issue that has a recurring tendency to pop up. It always amazes me how financial capital has the potential to turn ideas into realities, and it always impressed me how Linus built his kernel by coordinating the activities of dozens of other programmers he'd never even met.Anyway, food for thought. I'd prefer to fully commit to some R&D program like this and start talking dates, times and dollars but realistically I think I'd only be ready for something like this next year (one must also eat after all!).